The utilitarian principle is valuable as a corrective of error, and shows to us a side of ethics which is apt to be neglected.

It may be admitted further that right and utility are co-extensive, and that he who makes the happiness of mankind his object has one of the highest and noblest motives of human action.

But utility is not the historical basis of morality; nor the aspect in which moral and religious ideas commonly occur to the mind.

The greatest happiness of all is, as we believe, the far-off result of the divine government of the universe.

The greatest happiness of the individual is certainly to be found in a life of virtue and goodness.