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12. Romilly à Dumont, 26 mai 1814. — Cf. la lettre de Bentham à son frère, mai 1793 (Bowring, vol. X, p. 291) : What my enemies, if I have any, say of me, I am not told; but the account my friends give of me is, that I am mad ; for which 1 make them a low bow : for madness, forsooth, being interpreted, means virtue; et Church of Englandism, ete., pp. xx-xxr: When, out of the multitude of his attendants, Jesus chose twelve for his Apostles, by the men in office he was declared to be possessed by a Devil : by his own friends, at the same time, he was set down for mad. The like fate, were my conscience to have shewed itself more scrupulous than that of the official casuist, was before my eyes. (Bentham fait allusion où, étudiant à Oxford, il dut, contre sa conscience, adhérer aux 39 articles.) — Bentham jugera d'ailleurs Owen sévèrement (Bowring, vol. X, p.570) : begins in vapour, and ends in smoke... His mind is a maze of confusion, and he avoids coming to particulars…

13. Holyoake, Sixly years of an agilalor’s life, vol. I, p. 120. — Sur les rapports d'Owen avec Place, v. Graham Wallas, p. 63.