Fragment, pp. 315 sqq

61. Voyez comment Mill conclut sa discussion de Mackintosh. Ce dernier n admettait pas qu'il fût possible de constituer scientifiquement la morale. « No man but Ihe lunatic in the stbry of Rasselas ever dreamt that he could command the weather. Tho difficulty plainly eonsists in the mnltiplicity and minuteness of the ci réunis tances which act on tbe atmosphetv.

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Are those wbich influence tbe formation of the human character likelj to be lésa minute and mulUplied ? » (Cité ap. Fragment pp. 29^296). AtiU réplique (p. 300) : a The eireumatanoes are minute and multipUed to an infinité degree, which ooatribute to the supply of London, or tny other gréai city« withthe neceiflaries and Inxuries which it consumes; yet we can traoe them ail, to the one principle in human natare which produces that supply with invariable constancy, and raeasurés it withalmost incredibl^ précision ».

62. DeofUohgy, part. I, chap. ii, vol. I, p. 23, d'après un manuscrit de Bentham du 18 septembre 1814.

63. DeorUology, part. I, chap. m, vol. I, p. 38; pp. 49 sqq., d'après des manuscrits de septembre 1814.