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79. Deontology, part. II, chap. iv; vol. II, p. 193 : Never do evil solely on the ground that it is deserved, in one verse — Never do evil for mère ill-desert.

80. Voir Deontologyy part. I, chap. vu (vol. 1, pp. 90 sqq), les intéressantes remarques de Bentham sur les deux formes de la sanction populaire : démocratique et aristocratique. — Cf. part. II, chap. vi ; vol. II, pp. 307 sqq. ; et Const. Code, Book IX, chap. ix ; Bowring, vol. IX, pp. 60 sqq.

1. ExamineTy 10 juin 1832, tlie last Act of Jeremy Bentham :... At the conclusion of the lecture, there was a disposition to applaud, on the part of the younger persons présent : but it vras immediately repressed by the expression of a deep reverential feeling. It was announced that at the next lecture there viould be a démonstration performed on the body of the anatomy of the hings and of the heart. — Cf. Tarticle mortuaire, WeUm, Rev.f JutUet 1832 : Bentham is dead... The « second Teacher of the Gréa test Happiness >, as he a few years ago was called, is gone to join < The First » ; and it is not small mattcrs of theology, that vfili prevent him from being greeted as a good and faithful servant. -> On reconnaît le mélange d'utilitarisme et de christianisme qui caractérise Bowring.

. 2. Bowring, vol. X, p. 185. — Ed. Rev,y n- CLVIII, octobre 1843, art. YIII : Jeremy Bentham (article d'Empson), p. 466 note.

3. Bain, pp. 73-74. -~ Une lettre de James Mill (Queen Square Place, 22 février 1^7), imprimée par Whittaker dans son rapport sur les mss. Univ. Coll., permet de dater avec précision V a incident pénible » auquel Bain fait allusion sans pouvoir en donner la date.— Ed, Rev.^ n* CLVIII, oct. 1843. art. VIII, pp. 467-468 note (article d'Empson) ; et n-CLlX,janv. 1844, p. 267 : letter from John S. Mill to the Editor ; et vol. 79, p. 270 (réponse de John Mill à Tarticle d'Empson) : There was, during the last few years of Benlham^s life, less frequency and cordiality of intercourse than in former years, chiefly because Bentham had acquired newer and, to him, more agreeable intimacies. — A rapprocher les deux textes suivants : « His (James MiU's) creed of politics results less from love to the many, than from hatred of the few. He is too much under the influence of selfish and dissocial affection «c (jugement de Bentham rapporté par Bowring, vol. X, p. 450), et cet autre passage (Bowring, vol. X, p. 571) : Speaking of a gentleman whose usefulness had been greatly diminished by a too earnest pursuitof hisown particular objecta, Bentham said : a He is wholly under thé influence of narrow interested feelings, antipathy a selfishness included. He hâtes the ruling few ; but he does not love the subject many ». Évidemment il s'agit de James Mill. — Une lettre adressée par Bentham à un ami de Manchester (11 avnl 1831. BrU. Mus, Add. Mss. 33, 546, fiT. 498- 501) pour lui recommander la candidature parlementaire de Bowring, de préférence à celle du colonel Thompson, met en lumière les avantages

474 iNOTES. (Pp. 320-323)

que présentait pour Beutham Tamitié de Bown'ng: « ... Dr. Bowring occupies a high place in the estimation and confidence of the présent administration, and is now acting on the continent in the exercise of a commission giyen to him by thera : in which considération is bnilt an expectation of mine that he will occupy ère long some distinguished officiai situation by which he wili be enabled to lend such powerful assistance to those labours to which my life has been devoted. Whatever were the subject, my instructions to him would be what an Attoraey's Brief is to a Counsel and would suffice to enable him to grapple with the lawyers, tribe. »

4. Bentham à O'Connell, 15 juillet 1828 ; Bowring, yoI. X, pp. 594-595 : Figure to yourself the mixture of surprise and delight which has this instant been poured into my mind by the sound of my name, as uttered by you, in the speech just read to me out of the Mommg Herald : the Sound 1 say, for it is only by my ears that I am able to read the type of it By one and the same man, not only ParUamentary Retùrm^ but Law Reform advocated... Yes, only from Ireland could such self- sacrifice come; nowhere else, least of ail in England, cold, selfish, priest-ridden, lord-ridden, squire-ridden, soldier-ridden England, could any approach to it be found.

5. Sur la question de la dissection, y. lettres de Bentham à Robert Peel^ 27.mars, 30 mars, 12 ayril, 24 avril, 26 avrU 1826 : rép. de Peel, 4 avril. — Le même mois, il lui envoie son Judicial Establishment. Autre lettre, 31 mai 1826, sur la réforme du droit. Le24 janvier 1827, lettre pour lai expliquer renvoi de son Humphrey's Property Code... For more than faalf a century, a man still living has been occupied in the endeavour to pull down Blackstone's old castle, foui with the fillh of fiction, and on the site of it to build upon the foundaUon laid... by Priestley a tenement for fit use : ail but the constitutional part applicable to présent place and time. — D'autres brouillons, de mai 1829, et février et mars 1830, semblent constituer plutôt des bi*ouillons pour des « lettres ouvertes ». (Mss. Univ. Ck)U., n* 11).

6. Bowring, vol. \1, pp. 9-12 (sur la réforme judiciaire), pp. 12-15 (contre le duel).