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John stuart Mil.
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!! JohnStunrt Mill was born In 1906
He was the son Of James Mill, tn
:, historian Of India, and Examiner Q
"A Indian Correspondence in the Eas
=, India uotise, alld celebrated anon
- English thinkers for his metaphysi
:, cal and economic studies. Jane
!, > Mill was Of fhumbIe bitth, but gaine,
= In his generation q position only les
- commanding than that which his Sol
achieved III the next, Under the i'm
:. pulse he inherited. At an early age
, James Mill attracted the at tcntion O
= Jeremy Bcntham, who took him int,
his own house, where hc lived fo
several years, and became thoroughly
!. indoctrinatcd with the views of hi
/, great master, whose disciple he wa,
= always proud to be called. He wa:
a pronounced by Macaulay the mes
g distinguished of the utilitarian phi
% losOphers after Bentham, and HI.
History of India" was admitted tc
! be the ablest of all the works on Tho
q subject, as well us the first that pre-.
sentcd sound views of Indian policy
1t exercised a great and bei e.iccut III.
. fiucnce:on the, subsequent measures
! OF the Government. lie was the iirsi
:. editor of the Westminster Review,
! was contributor TO the earlier n,iii,-
; ; bers OF the Encyclopedia Britana ca,
and wrote works oil politics, meta
!, physics, ethical philosophy ard ro-
liticai economy, which in their day
received great attention., although
now, OF course, they arc surcrsctt q
by the efforts of later thinkers, among
whom the greatest is his son. Thg
studies and achievements of tho
father are of interest, If, for no other
reason, because III them those OF the
son clearly had their origin and in-
spiration. The latter were not rep
ctition of the former; the father, for
example, was On earnest advocate of
the principles of Ricardo in political
economy, but all who have followed
the economic investigations OF tie
son know how far he has carried the
science beyond the niisdirccted de-
J ductions of tho Banker Economist,
And he was equally independent in
all things. Still he wrought in the
same lines as his father, and his work,
though ANYTHING but repetition,
may justly be called continuation
of that Of james Mill. John Stuart
Mill was educated at home, and under
the constant and direct supervision
OF his father. His training-cmbraced
Il very wide range of subjects, Eu:
was pursued accordingly to vigorous
and exact methods, to which he owes
!. the singularly clear and active char
actcr of his mind. Like Goethe, wIfo
Won some of his earliest notice bv
botanical and physical studies, his
mind was broad enough to comprc-
hend natural science, as well MS meta
physical, and the first record of his
name occurs in the .s.British Flora"
as an authority for the habitat of
flowers.
In 1920 he went to France, where
| hc lived for wear, making himself
master Of the French language and
a tending lectures on science. lie
Ii ed some time i'll Paris in the house
of jean Baptistc Say, the great
French economist, where he became
acquainted with many men disil-
gr:shcd, then or afterward. in letters
aud politics. lie spent part of his
time in the south Of France in the
house of Sir Samuel Bcntha,n. Dur |
ing his stay in France he laid the
foundation of his great familiarity
with an interest in French politics |
and literature. nc followed his |
father into the service OF the British
Government, and, i'll 1928 he receiv- |
ed clcrkship III the India House, |
| and in 1856 he succeeded TO the re-
spoUsi5lc position his father had filed |
before him-that of head OF the De-
partmcnt of Indian Correspondence,
one Of the most important executive }
posts i'll the gift of the East India
Company. Iii 1858 this department
was transferred to the general gov
crnmcnt, and lie Withdrew from ii.
He was then offered hy Lord Stanley
a seat in the Indian Council but declin-
ed it. The ready recognition accord
ed his mental powers is shown by the
fact that, when only 2l Years of age,
lie was chosen by the disciples Of
Bentham to edit Bcntham's citation
ale of Judicial Evidence" This
task was not beyond his ability, for
his was one OF those gifted minds
which is Old young and Old long. His
natural powers were SO great, his
culture was so thorough, that even
before he attained IL legal manhood
his place was conceded us among
those of full intellectual stature.
The Westminster Review, of which
his father had becn the first editor
and the chief contributor, had be-
come the London and Westminster
Review i'll lis time. He edited it'll
from 1885 to 1910, and wrotc for it
the famous articles on Hentham ani
.Coicridgc. The first elaborate pre-
srntation of the philosophy with
which his name is identified was
made i'll 134S ill his work entitled
.'System of Logic, Ratiocinatiye and
Inductive." The next year he issued
his "Es>ays OH Some Unsettled Cues
lions OF Political Economy and in
1919 appeared his great work entitled
''princii'lcs of Political Ecouoniy,
with Some OF their Applications to
Social Philosophy" Ills object in
this work. the great ability OF which
met with instantaneous acknowledged
Gcnt and raised him to a rank
among political economists second
none but Adam Smith, was, as he
states i'll his preface, to Illustrate
genera! principles with practical up
plications, particularly those which
had shown themselves in the fruitful
years since the Wealth of Nations"
was published. lie also Introduced
the products OF later and frcs!.cv i'll
quirics than Adam Smiths with re-
gard 10 such topics and currency,
foreign trade, land population and
colonization. His "Di.scrta,iors
and Discussions, Political, Ph.lusoph-
ical and Historically published in
1859, and collected from The pages of
:he Westminster and Edinburgh Re-
views, present his philosophy III
nearly all its applications. In 1859
he published his ''Iiberty," in which
lie upholds the rights OF individual,
moral aud intellectual independence,
against the growing dcspotisin OF,
social and political! masses. This
brilliant essay is deyoted to his wife.
whom hc had but lately lost at Avig-
uon. whence he had soiFe to join
her, and whom he has rendered im-
mortal by this beautiful tribute,
which We, reproduce entire, II
throws rs much light upon the man
John Stuart Mill as could be givenl
by amy dissection of the principles of
his philosophy, or recapitulation Of
the dates of the events of~h life.
This noble dedication runs as. fol-
lows:
To the beloved and deplorcd men,
ory of her who was the inspirer,und I
i'll part the author, of all shat is best /
| IN any writings, the friehd and wife
whose exalted ssense of truth and
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