Bowring, vol. X, p. 210 : Bentham à George Wilson

122. Dumont, Discours Préliminaire, pp. X-XI. Y. Bowring, vol. I, p. 1 ;

298 notes. (Pp. 38-43)

préface à la 2e édit. de l'Introduction une explication de la raison qui détermina Bentham à publier en 1789 : « Another considération is, that the suppression of the présent work, had itbeen ever so decidedly wished, is no longer altogether in his power. In the course of so long an interval. Tarions incidents hâve introduced copies into various hands, from souie of which they hâve been transferred, by deaths andothers accidents, into others that are unknown to him. Detached, but considérable extracts, hâve even been published, without any dishonourable views (for thename of the author waa very honestly subjoined to them), but without his privity, and in publications undertaken without his knowledge. » Mais nous n'avons pas trouvé trace de ces publications de fragments.

123. Introduction, cliap. 1, § i. Bo\vring,vol.X,p.l. — Cf. Helvetius, c/e/'iïsprit : « Il semble que... Dieu... ait dit... à l'homme : « Je te doue de la sensibilité; c'est par elle qu'aveugle instrument de mes volontés, incapable de connaître la profondeur de mes vues, tu dois, sans le savoir, remplir tous mes desseins. Je te mets sous la garde du plaisir et de la douleur, etc.

124. Introduction, chap. VIII , § i, p. 2 : the art of directing men's actions to the production of the greatest possible quantity of happiness, on the part of those whose interest is in view (Bowring, vol. 1, p. 142).