----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- > >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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]