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>I don't think that Chastellux's book had any influence on Jefferson. In  
>fact the issue of "happiness", public happiness in particular, was very  
>popular among French and Italian philosophers and economists (Verri,  
>Galiani, Genovesi, Condorcet ...), and was a common theme of (continental)  
>Enlightenment. In England, instead, happiness was almost absent (as far as  
>I know Chastellux is the only English work on "public happiness"). English  
>were interested in "wealth of the Nations", whereas  Latin countries on  
>"happiness". 
 
 
This gives me a chance to ask about something I have not been able to track down. In *On
Revolution*, Hannah Arendt  remarks on Jefferson's "slip of the pen" in the Declaration,
making "pursuit of public happiness"  into "pursuit of happiness."  Is there any evidence
that there was such a change?
 
Kevin Quinn 
Bowling Green State University 
 
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