[Note 1 (p. 648)] : The phrase which he used during the greater part of his life, and which has become current - "The greatest happiness of the greatest number" - he found, at the age of twenty-two, in an early pamphlet of Priestley. In the Deontology, however, he proposes to drop the latter half of the phrase, as superfluous and liable to misinterpretation.

[Note 2 (p. 648)] : J. S. Mill tells us in his Autobiography that he introduced this term into currency from one of Galt's novels. It was, however, suggested by Bentham, in a letter to Dumont in June, 1802, as preferable to "Benthamite."

[Note 1 ( p. 649)] : Cf. esp. c. xix. of the Principles of Morals and Legislation, § 2, 3, 6, 7.

[Note 1 (p. 652)] : Cf. J.S. Mill's Logic, b. vi. Ch. vii. viii.; and his Autobiography, p. 158.