Ibid

67. Essay XII. Of Civil liberty Essays, éd. Green, vol. I, pp. 156 sqq .

68. Essay XIII. Of Passive Obédience. {Essays. éd. Green, vol. I, pp. 461 sqq).

(Pp. 260-262) notes. 3u7

69. Bentham se tient visiblement, vers cette époque, pour l'allié de Hume en matière d'irréligion. V. Mss. Univ. Coll. 35,538 f. 109 : lettre à Samuel Bentham, du 17 mars 1777... : There is a verv short lifeot'D. Hume corne out, written to himself. I hâve just heen reading it : it will do service to the cause. — f. 120 : lettre à Samuel Bentham, 6 mai 1777 : « ... I hâve been told there hâve been two attacks upon Dr. Adam Smith by the godly, for testifying that David Hume died in peace. There was a little grinning prig Oxford Parson t' other day at Q. S. P. (c'est-à-dire ,i Queen's Square Place, chez son père of whom Madame asked whether he liad seen the answer to tlie Humaean impiety : meaning one of those.