Traités, Principes de l^islation, chap. xiii

43. Introduction, chap. i, note de juillet 1822 ; Bowring, vol. I, p. 3. — Wesminster Review, no XXII, juillet 1829, art. XVI, pp. 267-268. — Z)eo7itology. Part. 1, histoire du principe de Tufilité. — Bowring, vol. X, pp. 567, 582. — Chadwick proposait de dire felicity, felicitarian. — Suivant la « Déontologie >, la nouvelle formule aurait été employée pour la première fois en 1822, dans le Codification Proposai, addressed hy Jeremy Bentham to ail nations professing libéral opinions etc. (Bowring, vol. IV, pp. 535 sqq. ef. mss. Univ. Coll., n* 80, nov. 1821, avrU 1822).

44. Naê, Rd, ch. I. — Cf. Conti, Code, Book. L ch. x ; Bowring, vol. IX, p. 68: Man is susceptible of pain in greater quantities thanpleasure.

45. Deontology, part. I, chap. i, Hazlitt, The Piain Speaker, opinions on books, men and things, 1826. essay XVII. The new School, a dialogue between a rationalist and a sentimentalist (vol. I, p. 453) : The effect of tbis System is, like the touch of the torpédo, to chill and paralyse. We, notwitbstanding, find persons acting upon it with exemplary coolness and self-complacency. One of thèse « subtilised savages > informa another wfao drops into bis shop that news is corne of the death of his eldest daughter, adding, as matter of boast : a I am the only person in the hous ^bo will eat

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any dinner to day : they do not understand the doctrine of tUUUy / » I f^rceive this illustration is not quite to your taste. — A cette apostrophe, le rationaliste répond: Is it any thingmorethan the old doctrine ofStoics? — V. la lettre stoïcienne de ton, de Francis Place, citée par Graham Wallas, pp. 362-363, à William Lovett, \2 janv. 1839 : a I never go out.. . without seeing poverty and ignoran :e, and am constantly obliged to &hake off the uneasy feelings thèse produce, lest I should become a misanthrope. You and I and ail such men are apt to value mankind too highly, but not equally so. In proportion as this notion prevails will be our uneasiness. Look at mankind, calmly, rationally, as they are ; see the naked savages; see the ferocious Malays, the murderous Ladrones, and ask yourself what is man as Nature made him ?... I settled the question with myself thus, and I advise you to folio w ray example, since it will makeyou happier and enable you to increase the happiness of others. I resolved that nothing 1 saw, nothing I read, nothing I heard — I should hâve added nothing I suffered — should make me unhappy. I saw that to better the condition of others toany considérable citent was a long uphill pièce of work, that my best efforts would produce very little effect. But I saw very distinctly that I could do nothing better, nothing indeed half so good. This made me go on steadily, and kept me as steadîly to my résolve not to be unhappy, let whatever might corne.

46. Bowring, vol. X, p. 245 : Bentham à lord Lansdowne, août ou septembre 1790. — Autob.j pp. 47 sqq.

47. Bowring, vol. X, p. 92 : Bentham à G. Wilson, 25 août 1781 ; — vol. X, p. 568: Bentham's Conversation, 1827; — Bain, p. 362: James Mill à Brougham, 15 sept. 1831. — Cf. Tarticle de la « Revue d'Edimbourg », cité plus haut, note 38.