Bowring, vol. X, p

70. Mss. Univ. Coll., n° 32 (Législation VI. Code civil), dans un fragment intitulé Civil Préface : The présent work as well as any other work of mine that lias been or will be published on the subject of législation or

290 notes. (Pp. 2G-29)

any other branch of moral science is an attempt to extend the expérimental method of reasoning from the physical branch to the mural. What Bacon was to the physical world, Helvetius was to the moral. The moral world has therefore had its Bacon, but its Newton is yet to come. — Cf. Bowring, vol. X, pp. 587-8 : Bentham's Menioranda, 1827-8 : What Bacon did was to proclaim Fiat expérimentant : Lut lus own knowledge of Natural Philosophy was ignorance. — What Locke did, was to destroy the notion of innate ideas. — What Newton did, was to throwr light on one branch of science. — But I bave planted the tree of Utility. — I hâve planted it deep, and spread it wide. — Vol. X, p. 70 : Memoranda, 1773-4 : Digest of the Law prématuré before Locke and Helvetius. — A digest of the Laws is a work that could not hâve been executed with advantage before Locke and Helvetius had written : the first establishing a test of perspicuity for ideas ; the latter establishing a standard of rectitude for

actions The niatter of the law is to be governed by Helvetius. For the

form and expression of it we must resort to Locke. — From Locke it must receive the ruling principles of its form — from Helvetius of its matter. — By the principles laid down by Locke it must be governed, in as much as it is a discourst; by those of Helvetius, in as much as it is a discourse from authority. predicting puni&hment for some modes of conduct and reward for others.