Ibid. Préface

20. Introduction, ch. X, xxxvm (Bowring, vol. I, p. 57; : Striclly speaking, habit, being but a fictitious entity, and not really anything distinct from the acts or perceptions by which it issaid tobe formed, cannot be the cause of anything. The enigma, however, may be satisfaetorily solved upon the prineiple of association, of the nature and force of which a very satisfactory account may be seen in Dr. Priestley's édition of Hartley on Man. — Cf. Logical arrangement* Bowring, vol. V. p. 286 : Whether there ever were a time at which the word happiness failed of presenting to my mind the character of an aggregate, or compound, of which pleasures, and the exemption from corresponding pains, were the sole éléments, is morethan at présent 1 can recollect. The satisfaction I remember to hâve experienced at the observation of this interprétation, as given to it in the fit st place by Helvetius (in his book De l'Esprit), and afterward by Hartley

in lus Treatise on Man, or rather the abridgment of it) aflords some presumption of its being at the first of thèse times new to me. But perhaps the cause of that satisfaction was not the novelty of the notion in relation

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to my own conceptions, but the circumstance of seeing the confirmation given to them in thèse works. — L'édition de Priestley est citée dans le Panopticon (letter XXI, p. 64), qui, publié en 1791, avait été écrit en 1787.

21. Remarks on Reid, Beattie, and Oswald, p. 2, London, 1774.