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Even some in the animal rights community have criticized Wise for the anthropocentrism of stressing his clients’ similarity to us rather than that basic Benthamic barometer of “can they suffer?”

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2014

If was my father's opinions which gave the distinguishing character to the Benthamic or utilitarian propagandism of that time.

From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart

Mr. Peel, then Home Secretary, was entering cautiously into the untrodden and peculiarly Benthamic path of Law Reform.

From Autobiography by Mill, John Stuart