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Chrestomathia

59.
Chrestomathia in
1769. Happiness taken
as a common trunk for
all the branches of art
and science. The trees
of Bacon and d'Alembert
torn up by the roots
by J. B.

About In the year 1769 in Hambad, Mr Bentham
at the age of about 21 it occurred to Mr Bentham that
the relation respectively borne by them to happiness, might
with no small practical advantage be taken for a
common bond of connection, [a common clubroom as it
were] a common stock for all the several branches
of art and science: a common trunk for all the branches
(this was the emblem he found in use) for the Encyclopedical
tree. In the year 18.. Of this general idea application was used by him
in detail, in his work intituled Chrestomathia. In
that work taking for his starting post in the career of
improvement the tree first derived by Lord Bacon, afterwards
taken in hand and in some sort improved by the French
Philosopher D'Alembert and employed for giving method
to the French Encyclopedia by which the bulk given to the
work by the Englishman Chambers had been multiplied by
12, he set himself to make examination into the aptitude
of the method given in these former works. In neither none of which no speaking of
arts and sciences was any nature of plant property
to which they even every one of them indebted, for whatsoever
value they could lay claim to. Sincere and intense
had always been his admiration of Bacon: not less so of
D'Alembert. Not the less compleatly torn to pieces were the two trees
that had been planted which by the hand of these illustrious
nursery men had been successively planted.

60.
Dumont. Kindness
of french Press to J. B.
greater honour conferred on
him in France than here.

Kind and magnanimous on every occasion
has been the treatment received by him at the hands of the
French nation. By Mr Dumont of Geneva the services rendered
by the French English though was placed at on a higher level than that which
had been rendered by the French, though departed Juriot. By Chrestomathia
the like kind has the result with respect to comparative
attitude in the scale of philosophical merit. Yet in speaking of From the press of France
Mr Bentham here has but that of kind
-ness
ness and admiration
was manifested itself.

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Identifier: | JB/014/345/001
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Date_1

1829-06

Marginal Summary Numbering

59-60

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

345

Info in main headings field

article

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1 / f36

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

b&m 1829

Marginals

richard doane

Paper Producer

arthur moore; richard doane

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1829

Notes public

[[notes_public::"original / copied" [note in colls's hand]]]

ID Number

5108

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