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JOHN STUART MILL:
HIS LIFE AND WORKS
TWELVE SKETCHES BY
Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison,
AND OTHER DISTINGUISHED AUTHORS.
BOSTON: JAMES R OSGOOD AND COMPANY
(LATE TICKNOR & FIELD AND FIELDS OSGOOD, & Co.)
1873
CONTENTS.
| I. - A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. | H. R. Fox Bourne |
| II. - HIS CAREER IN THE INDIA HOUSE. | W. T. Thornton |
| III. - HIS MORAL CHARACTER. | Herbert Spencer |
| IV. - HIS BOTANICAL STUDIES. | Henry Trimen |
| V. - HIS PLACE AS A CRITIC. | W. Minto |
| VI. - HIS WORK IN PHILOSOPHY. | J. H. Levy |
| VII. - HIS STUDIES IN MORALS AND JURISPRUDENCE. | W. A. Hunter |
| VIII. - HIS WORK IN POLITICAL ECONOMY. | J. E. Cairnes |
| IX. - HIS INFLUENCE AT THE UNIVERSITIES. | Henry Fawcett |
| X. - HIS INFLUENCE AS A PRACTICAL POLITICIAN. | Millicent Garrett Fawcett |
| XI. - HIS RELATION TO POSITIVISM. | Frederic Harrison |
| XII. - HIS POSITION AS A PHILOSOPHER. | W. A. Hunter |
I.
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE
John Stuart Mill was born on the 20th of May, 1806. "I am glad," wroteGeorge Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming articleon his "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," "to get anopportunity of saying what I think about your 'System of Logic' and'Essay on Liberty,' but I am still more glad to get (or perhaps tomake) an opportunity of saying something about your father. It hasalways rankled in my thoughts that so grand and powerful a mind as hisleft behind it such insufficient traces in the estimation ofsuccessors." That regret was natural. The grand and powerful mind ofJames Mill left very notable traces, however, in the philosophicalliterature of his country, and in the training of the son who was tocarry on his work, and to be the most influential teacher in a newschool of thought and action, by which society is likely to berevolutionized far more than it has been by any other agency sincet