Rights of Man, Part H, chap. u

25. Rights of Man, Part II, chap. u : It is impossible that sueh governments as hâve hitherto existed in the ivoiid, would hâve commenced by any other means than a total violation of every principle, sacred and moral.

26. lbid., Part I, Miscellaneous chapter : That civil government is necessary, ail civilised nations will agrée : but civil government is Republican government.

27. Rights of Man, Part II, chap. i : a national association acting on the principles of Society. — Chap. ni : no more than some common centre in which ail the parts of society unité. — Chap. iv : Government is nothing more than a national association for the good of ail, as well individualisas coilectively. Every man wishes to pursne his occupation, and to enjoy the fruits of his labors and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When those things are accompli shed, ail the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

28. PoliUcal Justice, Book II, Principles of Society, chap. i(2« éd., vol. I, p. 125) ; Men associated at first for the sake of mutual assistance. They did not foresee that any restraint would be necessary, to regulate the conduct of individual members of the society, towards each other, or towards the whole. The necessity of restraint grew out of the errors and perverseness of the few. — Et Godwin cite le passage de Paine, Common Sensé, p. 1.

29. Inversement, je ne trouve qu'une seule allusion à Godwin dans l'œuvre de Bentham : une simple plaisanterie dans une lettre privée (Bowring, vol. X, p. 59 : lettre à Bowring, du 30 janv. 1827). — Le docteur Pair, ancien ami de Godwin et ami intime de Bentham, écrit à Bentham le 23 déc. 1804 : ... I shall mention you in tbe pulpit by name — nothing shall protect you — fear nothing, for you will find me not very distant from you in principle : and I shall bave occasion to commend the correct and logical way in which you state your opinions. Not so doth Godwin and his French followers.

30. Book I, chap. ni and iv (l ro éd.), chap. iv (2 e éd.). La deuxième édition tient compte, ce que ne faisait pas la première, de ce que Godwin appelle ce the effects of antenatal impressions and original structure ».

31. Pol. Just., Book I, chap. vin (Ist éd.). — Chap. iv (2e éd.).

32. Pol. Just., Book I, chap. ix (supprimé dans la deuxième édition).