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25. Rights of Man, Part Il, chap. 11 : It is impossible that such governments as have hilherto existed in the world, would have commenced by any other means than a total violation of every principle, sacred ani moral.

26. Ibid., Part [, Miscellaneous chapter : That civil government is necessary, all civilised nations will agree : but civil government is Republican government.

27. Rights of Man, Part IL, chap. 1 : a national association acting on the principles of society. — Chap. 111 : no more than some common centre in which all the parts of society unite. — Chap. 1v : Government is nothing more than a national association for the good of all, as well individually as collectively. Every man wishes to pursue 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 accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.

28. Political Justice, Book II, Principles of Society, chap. r(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 Sense, 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 Parr, ancien ami de Godwin et ami intime de Bentham, écrit à Bentham, le 23 déc. 1804 : … I shall mention you in the pulpit by name — nothing shall protect you — fear nothing, for you will find me not very distant from you in principle : and I shall have 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. ur and 1v (41° éd.), chap. rv (2e éd.). La deuxième édition tient compte, ce que ne faisait pas la première, de ce que Godwin appelle « the effects of antenatal impressions and original structure ».

31. Pol. Just., Book I, chap. vu (st ed.). — Chap. rv (2e ed.).

32. Pol. Just., Book I, chap. 1x (supprimé dans la deuxième édition). 33. Pol. Jusl., Book IV, chap. x (2e éd.).