Principles, pp. 60 sqq

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47. Economical enquiries relative to the Utws tvhich regulate rent, profil, wageSy and the value of money, London, 1822.

48. Sur les relations de Thompson avec les Benthamites, y. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 506-507; Stuart Mill, Auiobiogmphy, p. 125; Leslie Stephen, the English Utilitatians, vol. 11, p. 261. Dans an Inquiry into the Principles ofthe Distribution of Weallh most conducive to human happiness, applied to the newly proposed System of voluntary equality of wealth, 1824, le début (p. 1) est expressément utilitaire : Utility, calculating ail effects, good and evil, immédiate and remote, or the pursuit of the greatest possible sum of human happiness, is the leading principle constantly kept in view, and to which ail others are but subsidiary, in this inquiry. In Bentham's « Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislalion », and the first chapters of the celebrated < Traités de Législation », this principle, recognised by Helvetius, Priestley, Paley, and others, is developed and established for ever, to the exclusion of ail other pretended tests of morals. — No subject is more interesting, or if rightly treated more useful, than the Distribution of WecUth.— The distribution to be hère inquired into, is that which will promote the greatest possible quantity of human happiness, or the greatest happiness of the greatest number.-^ Thompson pose le problème (égalité, sûreté), dans les mêmes termes que Bentham (pp. 21, 24, 90, 172), mais le résout différemment.