[474] Works, i. 212.
[475] Ibid. ix. 192.
[476] See, e.g., i. 83, where sympathy seems to be taken as an ultimate pleasure; and ii. 133, where he says 'dream not that men will move their little finger to serve you unless their advantage in so doing be obvious to them.' See also the apologue of 'Walter Wise,' who becomes Lord Mayor, and 'Timothy Thoughtless,' who ends at Botany Bay (i. 118), giving the lowest kind of prudential morality. The manuscript of the Deontology, now in University College, London, seems to prove that Bentham was substantially the author, though the Mills seem to have suspected Bowring of adulterating the true doctrine. He appears to have been an honest if not very intelligent editor; though the rewriting, necessary in all Bentham's works, was damaging in this case; and he is probably responsible for some rhetorical amplification, especially in the later part.
[477] Church of Englandism (Catechism examined), p. 207.
[478] See this phrase expounded in Works ('Book of Fallacies'), ii. 440, etc.
END OF VOL. I
NOTE ON BENTHAM'S WRITINGS
The following account of Bentham's writings may be of some use. The arrangement is intended to show what were the topics which attracted his attention at successive periods.
The collected Works, edited by Bowring, appeared from 1838 to 1843 in eleven volumes, the last two containing the life and an elaborate index. The first nine volumes consist partly of the works already published; partly of works published for the first time from Bentham's MSS.; and partly of versions of Dumont's redactions of Bentham. Dumont's publications were (1) Traités de Legislation civile et pénale (1802; second edition, revised, 1820): [vol. i. contains Principes généraux de Legislation and Principes du Code civil; vol. ii. Principes du Code pénal; and vol. iii. Mémoire sur le Panoptique, De la Promulgation des Lois, De l'Influence du Temps et des Lieux, and Vue générale d'un Corps complet des Lois]; (2) Théorie des Peines et des Récompenses, 1811, 1818, 1825; (3) Tactiques des Assemblées déliberantes et Traité des Sophismes politiques, 1816; (4) Traité des Preuves judiciaires, 1823; and (5) De l'Organisation judiciaire et de la Codification, 1823.