EDITED BY

PROFESSOR ERIC S. ROBERTSON, M.A.

LIFE OF MILL.

49-21

LIFE

OF

JOHN STUART MILL

BY

W. L. COURTNEY

LONDON

WALTER SCOTT, 24 WARWICK LANE

NEW YORK: THOMAS WHITTAKER

TORONTO: W. J. GAGE AND CO.

1889

(All rights reserved.)

Phel 2138.82.7

B

(1889)

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIARY OF

JOHN GRAHAM BROOKS

APRIL 25, 1939

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Character of James Mill; different estimates by friends and
foes; external events of James Mill's life; inner life; his
friends; unamiability in domestic life; intellectual work;
chief characteristic of James Mill a certain hardness of
fibre; the eighteenth-century spirit; James Mill's logical
precision and analytic ingenuity equally unfortunate; cold
rationalism and its effects; important influence of James
Mill, both in the political and in the intellectual world

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CHAPTER II.

A disquisitive youth; early education given by his father to

J. S. Mill; Greek, Latin, and mathematics; estimate of

the value of this early education; unsympathetic character

of the father; effects on Mill's demeanour; foreign visit to

the family of Sir Samuel Bentham; incidents of the visit ;

interest taken in the French nation; return to England

and commencement of public life as a clerk in India

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