...utilitarianism on the same grounds, particularly when, near the end of Utilitarianism, Mill says that "Bentham's dictum 'everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one' " entails the "equal claim of everybody to happiness" as well as the "equal claim to all the means...

...the quotation that he himself makes from Mill. ' The Greatest Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person's...kind), is counted for exactly as much as another's.' Mr. Spencer goes on to maintain that it would be absurd to divide equally " the concrete means to happiness"...

...argument in favor of democracy. It shows why it is that in matters of legal rights or political influence, Bentham's dictum, " everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one," should apply. There is no doubt that some persons are more important to society than others, but, however...