Nor is there in Bentham's defence of Utilitarianism argument in which he would have recognized novelty.
Herein, at least, his proof that morality is no more than general opinion of utility constructs, in briefer form, the later arguments of Bentham, Paley and the Mills, nor can their mode of statement claim superiority to Hume's.

So that on either side of his work he foreshadows the advent of the two great schools of modern political thought.

His utilitarianism is the real path by which radical opinion at last found means of acceptance.

His use of history is, through Burke, the ancestor of that specialized conservatism begotten of the historical method.

If there is thus so much, it is, of course, tempting to ask why there is not more.