Education, p

5. Aulobiography, p. 64-67: My previous education had been, in a certain sense, already a course of Benthamism... Yet in the first pages of Bentham it burst upon me with all the force of novelty.. When I laid down the last volume of the Traité, I had become a different being. The «principle of utility » understood as Bentham understood it, and applied in the manner in which he applied it through these three volumes, fell exactly into the place as the keystone which held together the detached and fragmentary component parts of my knowledge and beliefs. lt gave unity to my conceptions of things.

6. V. Bowring, vol. X, p. 413 : la curieuse lettre de Mill à Bentham. 28 juillet 1812: « I am not going to die, notwithstanding your zeal to come in for a legacy. However, if I were to die any time before this poor boy is a man, one of the things that would pinch me most sorely, would be, the being obliged to leave his mind unmade to the degree of excellence, cf which I hope to make it. But another thing is, that the only prospect which would lessen that pain, would be the leaving him in your hands. J therefore take your offer quite seriously, and stipulate, merely, that it shall be made as good as possible ; and then we may perhaps leave him a successor worthy of both of us. »