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==Etymology== ''Benthamism'', the utilitarian philosophy founded by [[Jeremy Bentham]], was substantially modified by his successor [[John Stuart Mill]], who popularized the term ''utilitarianism''.<ref name="Habibi 2001 89, 112">{{cite book | last=Habibi | first=Don | chapter=Mill's Moral Philosophy | title=John Stuart Mill and the Ethic of Human Growth | publisher=Springer Netherlands | location=Dordrecht | year=2001 | isbn=978-90-481-5668-9 | pages=89โ90, 112| doi=10.1007/978-94-017-2010-6_3 }}</ref> In 1861, Mill acknowledged in a footnote that, though Bentham believed "himself to be the first person who brought the word 'utilitarian' into use, he did not invent it. Rather, he adopted it from a passing expression" in [[John Galt (novelist)|John Galt]]'s 1821 novel ''[[Annals of the Parish]]''.<ref>[[John Stuart Mill|Mill, John Stuart]]. 1861. ''[[wikisource:Utilitarianism|Utilitarianism]]''. n1.</ref> However, Mill seems to have been unaware that Bentham had used the term ''utilitarian'' in his 1781 letter to George Wilson and his 1802 letter to [[รtienne Dumont]].<ref name="Habibi 2001 89, 112"/><!--source needed for: in Bentham's 1802 letter to Dumont he had claimed that 'Utilitarian' was the proper name for his new creed.-->
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