[123] Disc. ii. 15.
[124] See Diderot’s truer version, Œuv., ii. 482.
[125] Disc. iv. 13, etc.
[126] Œuv., ii. 270.
[127] Disc. ii. 24.
[128] As Mr. Henry Sidgwick has put this:—“Even the indefatigable patience and inexhaustible ingenuity of Bentham will hardly succeed in defeating the sinister conspiracy of self-preferences. In fact, unless a little more sociality is allowed to an average human being, the problem of combining these egoists into an organisation for promoting their common happiness, is like the old task of making ropes of sand. The difficulty that Hobbes vainly tried to settle summarily by absolute despotism, is hardly to be overcome by the democratic artifices of his more inventive successor.”
[129] Disc. ii. 13.
[130] Disc. ii. 24.
[131] Disc. iii.
[132] Œuv. ii. 271.