PrincipleSf p. 260 (phrase finale

55. Bentham, Mss. Univ. Coll., n» 14. — La feuille a pour titre : Dimensions of Happiness. — Tis in vain to talk of adding quantlties which after the addition uill continue distinct as thny were before, one man*s happiness will never be another man's happiness : a gain to one nianis no gain to another : you might as well prétend to add 20 apples to 20 pears, which after you had done that could not be 40 of any one thing but 20 of each just as there was before. This addibility of the happiness of difTerent subjects, however when considered rigorously it may appear fictitious, is a postulatum without the allovrance of which ail political reasoning is at a stand : not is it more fictitious than that of the equality of chances to reality, on which that whole branch of the Mathematics which is callcd the doctrine of chances is established. The fictitious form of speech (expression) in both cases, which, fictitious as it is, can give birth to no false conséquences or conclusions, is adopted from anecessity which induces the like expédient in so many other instances, merely for the sake of abbreviation : as it would be endless to repeat in every passage where it was used, what it was it wanted to be rigorously tfue.