Ibid. Préface

20. Introduction t ch. X, xxxviii (Bowring, vol. I, p. 57) : Stpictly speaking, habit, being but a fictitious entity, and not really anything distinct from the acts or perceptions by which it issaid tobe formcd, cannot be the cause of anything. The enigma, however, may be satisfactorily solved upon the principle of association, of the nature and force of which a very satisfactory account may be seen in Dr. Priestley's édition of Hartley on Man. — Cf. Logical arrangemenùi^ Bowring, vol. V. p. 286 : Whelher there ever were a time at which the word happiness failed of presenting to my mind the character of an aggregate, or compound, of which pleasures, and the exemption from corresponding pains, were the sole éléments, is morethan at présent 1 can recollect. The satisfaction I remember to hâve experienced al the observation of this interprétation, as givcn to it in the first place by Helvetius (in his book De l'Esprit), and afterward by Hartley (in his Treatise on Man, or rather the abridgment of it) aflords some presumption of ils being at the first of thèse limes new to me. But perhaps the cause of that satisfaction was not the novelty of the notion in relation

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to my ovvn conceptions^ but tlie circumstance of seeing the confirmation given to them in thèse ^^orks. — L'édition de Priestley est citée dans le Patioptiœn (letton XXI, p. 64), qui, publié en 1791, avait été écrit en 1787.

?1. Remarks on Reid^ Bcattie, and Oswaldy p. 2, London, 1774.