Further, this end is the one thing in life that is really worth attaining; and since we have to do with no life other than this one, it must be found amongst the days and years of which this short life is the aggregate.

On the adequacy of this universal end depends the whole question of the positive worth of life, and the essential dignity of man.
That this is at least one way of stating the case has been often acknowledged by the positive moralists themselves.

The following passage, for instance, is from the autobiography of J.S.Mill.

'_From the winter of 1821_,' he writes, '_when I first read Bentham....

I had what might truly be called an object in life, to be a reformer of the world....