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And the greatest happiness of the individual may be the reverse

of the greatest happiness in the ordinary sense of the term, and

may be realised in a life of pain, or in a voluntary death.

Further, the word 'happiness' has several ambiguities; it may

mean either pleasure or an ideal life, happiness subjective or

objective, in this world or in another, of ourselves only or of

our neighbours and of all men everywhere. By the modern founder

of Utilitarianism the self-regarding and disinterested motives of

action are included under the same term, although they are

commonly opposed by us as benevolence and self-love. The word

happiness has not the definiteness or the sacredness of 'truth'

and 'right'; it does not equally appeal to our higher nature, and

has not sunk into the conscience of mankind.