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1829. June L 1

Article on Utilitarianism.

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

In the year 1769 or thereabouts, at the age
of about 21, it occurred to Mr. Bentham, that the relation
respectively born by them to happiness, might with no
small practical advantage, be taken for a common bond
of connection, a common club room, 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 made
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 devised 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 to those former works, in none of which, in speaking
of the arts and sciences, was any notice taken of
that property to which they were every one of them
indebted, for whatsoever value they could lay claim
to. Sincere and intense had always been the
admiration of Bacon: not less so of D'Alembert. Not the
less completely torn to pieces were the two trees which,
by the hands of the illustrious Nursery men, had been
successively planted.

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Identifier: | JB/014/386/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.
Date_1	1829-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	014	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	386	Info in main headings field	art. on utilitarianism
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / f29
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals	john flowerdew colls	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public	[[notes_public::"copy" [note in colls's hand]]]	ID Number	5149
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