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JOHN STU Inr MILL.

CALL a man a philosopher, and many Englishmen
will regard him with distrust. Prove that he is
among the greatest of living philosophers, and the
distrust will be intensified into dislike. Let such
a man enter the House of Commons, and there
uphold in practice the doctrines by which be has
acquired his reputation, and he will be treated as
if he were • pickpocket or worse. The members
whose claims to intellectual supremacy ho chal-
lenges or refutes will retort that "he is too clever
"by half." Any member who is bold or rash
enough to give expression to the sentiments of his
kind will exclaim that " philosophers are not wanted
"in the House." The more stolid and prejudiced
among the public will gladly re-echo the cry, and
the member who most thoroughly merits an atten-
tive airing will become the bait for the sneer of
the scorner, and the object of ridicule on the part
of thousands who would laud him to the skies
were they capable of appreciating his excellencies.
Now it was with the drawback of a great phi-
losophical reputation to uphold and justify that
Mr. MILL took his seat in the House of Commons.
His friends had worked fur his election because
they believed him to be a political thinker, possess-
ing in addition a rare capacity for practical states-
manship. They knew that some of his avowed
opinions were unpopular, and that it was generally
believed several of his cherished theories were
ridiculous. By opponents he was stigmatised as a
man of crotcbeta. In short his career as a poli-
tician was considered as a great experiment. We
believe that if a vote were now to be taken, it
would be found that the opinions held three years
ago concerning Mr. MILL still prevail in the
breasts of those who then enunciated them. Those
who treat him with a respect which does them
honour, and those who revile him with the audacity
of ignorance, could both discover in his Parlia-
mentary speeches and conduct ample materials in
support of their views. The friend would point to
his warning against treating the National Debt as
a burden it were unnecessary to lighten, seeing that
the supply of coal is but limited, and when ex-
hausted will render posterity unable to bear a load
of taxation which is now carried with comparative
ease, and to his energetic yet temperate ad-
vocacy of the Reform Bill of 1866, on the
ground that though a small step it was really •
step in the right path. The tribe of detractors, on
the other hand, would extract passages from his
speeches which are uncomplimentary to merely
selfish possessors of landed property, and would
ask—ls this the Political Economist who, we
were ensured, had a panacea for every ill
to which the body politic was liable t and
would 'contend that in reality he was nothing
better than a quack or a communist. They
would .amuse themselves and their audience with
other extracts in which Mr. MILL had spoken his
mind with reference to the claims of women to
political equality. If these things failed to answer
their purpose, they would refer to the famous
pamphlet on Ireland and clench the matter by
styling the member for Westminster a Fenian in
disguise.

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