Excerpt from Introduction to Ethics, Vol. 2 of 2: Including a Critical Survey of Moral Systems, Translated From the French of Jouffroy

Gentlemen,

By the plan marked out for this course of lectures, I should, perhaps, - having exhibited the selfish system under the form in which Hobbes presented it, - pass at once to the consideration of some new system, without stopping to discuss any other form which it has assumed. But I feel that I ought to make an exception with regard to one philosopher - I mean Bentham. The justly-acquired celebrity which this remarkable jurist enjoyed during his lifetime, and which will long endure, as well as the practical influence which his opinions and writings have exerted on his own country and on several parts of Europe, justify me in making this digression. And you, gentlemen, I am sure, will not regret to follow me.

All, who desire to obtain a clear and correct idea of Bentham's system and opinions, should read the work in which he has himself exhibited his philosophy.

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