Théorie des Récompenses^ liv. IV, p

77. Traités, Vue générale dun corps complet de législaHoUy chap. xxviii ; Bowring, vol. III, p. p. 203. — Principes du Code civil, 1" partie, chap. IV et V ; Bowring, vol. I, pp. 303-5.

78. Man. of Pol. Ec, chap. ii; Bowring, vol. III, p. 35. — Théorie des Récompenses, liv. IV, chap. i.

79. Man, of Pol. Ec, chap. m ; Bowring, vol. III, pp. 58-59. — Théorie des Recompenses, liv. IV, chap. m. pp. 264 sqq.

80. Man, of PoU Ec, chap. m; Bowring, vol. III, p. 71. — Théorie des Récompenses, liv. IV, chap. xiii, p. 352.

81. Man. of Pol. Ec. chap, i ; BowTing, vol. III, p. 33. — Cette expression qu'il prend à son compte en matière d'économie politique, Bentham s'en était servi, en 1776, en matière de législation, pour flétrir Blackstone. V. Fragm, on Gov. chap. V, § x (Bowring, vol. I, p. 294) : Between thèse two points, indeed, the i^ and the ought to he, so opposite as they frequently are in the eyes of other men, the spirit of obsequious quietism that seems constitutional in our Author, will scarce ever let him i*ecognise a différence.

82. Th. des Réc liv. IV, Introd., p. 249 : En résultat, Téconomie politique est une science plutôt qu'un art. Il y a beaucoup à apprendre, et peu à faire.

83. Josiah Tucker, The Case of going to War, for the sake of Procuring, Enlarging, or Securing ofTrade, considered in a new light, being a fragment of a greater work, Londres, 1763, p. 31 : The great Laws of Providence, and the Course of Nature, are not to be reversed or counter-acted by the feeble Effort of wayward Man... p. 32 : In the natural world, our bountifui Creator hath formed différent Soils, and appointed Ciimates; whereby the inhabitants of différent Countries may supply each other with their respective Fruits and Products; so that by exciting a reciprocal Industry, they may carry on an Intereourse mutually bénéficiai, and universally benevolent. — Et Burkc, Letlcrs.., on the... peace wUh the régicide directory ; Works, vol. VIH, p. 337 : « the benign and wise Disposer of ail things, who obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interesls, toconnect the gênerai good with their own individual success ».

84. Introd., chap. XVI, § xxxvi, note (Bowring, vol. I, p. 118) : Usury,

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which, if il must.be an offence, is an offence oommitted with consent, Ihat is, ^ith the oonscnt of the party supposed to be injared, cannot merit a plae<î in the catalogue of oflénceS) unless the consent were either nn&irly obtained or unfreely : in thefirst case, it coineideswithdefraud- .. ment; in the otherwith eiUortlon.

85. Bentham à Geo. Wilson, 19-30 déc. 1786 (Bowring, toI. X, p. 163) : ■Sir R. W. has a notion that Pitt means to reduce the rate of interest from five to four. Tell me what you hear abont it; were it true I should

■ like to give him a pièce of my mind (Irst. I hâve arguments agaiost it ready eut and dry : the former epithet you may haTe some doubt about ; the latter you will not dispute. Cf. lettre à Wilson, 9-20 février 1787 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 170) :. . . I am writing letters to you abusingPitt forbeing about to rtnluce the rate of inlei-est, and abusing the world for limiting the rate of interest at ail.

86. Bentham à AVilson, ll)-30 déc. 1786 (Bowring, vol X, p. 1(7).

87. Trail a Bentham^Sô février 1787 .Bowring, vol X, p. 171) ;^\Vasoii à Bentham, 24 avril 1787 (Bowring, vol. X, pp. 171-3).