NOTES:
[434] Works, v. 97, etc.
[435] See preface to Constitutional Code in vol. ix.
[436] Bentham's nephew, George, who died when approaching his eighty-fourth birthday, devoted the last twenty-five years of his life with equal assiduity to his Genera Plantarum. See a curious anecdote of his persistence in the Dictionary of National Biography.
[437] Works, iii. 573.
[438] Works, ix. 5, 8.
[439] The theory, as Mill reminds us, had been very pointedly anticipated by Helvétius. Bentham's practical experience, however, had forced it upon his attention.
[440] Works, ix. 141. The general principle, however, is confirmed by the case of George III.
[441] Ibid. ix. 45.
[442] Ibid. ix. 98.