, 1873-05-12


also tho ,natoriala Of tho phys1cal univoruo,
which ARD tho objootB Of human dosiro; that In
which Prof. Donatny prico Las antagonizot |
Mills doctrine that tho demand for money IL lilo
whole amount Of gootls aud uorViooa offered IN
tho market, md uico ycrsn, md that in which
Mr. Mills viows on tho lnws governing
tho queation Of Labor and Wae<;. All lhoso
eminent thinkers concur In giving him tho fore-
most ptaoo, md in reckoning themselves among
hia followers No ono 10 doomed worthy Of a
place among economists at tho prosout time WHO
haa not mastered what n1ill has writton.
In Logic md Political Economy Mr.. Mill
achieved Ills highoHt succoBs, yot lis labors nB a
socinl roforner may provo to bo tlloso which will
cauBo him to bo longest remembered. I1ia
EsHny OIL Liberty Ia ono Of tho noblont oxposi-
tiona Of tito right Of personal Independence
(which ho conceivos to DO tho ono thing most
cssontinl to human progrosb) that was ovor
given to tho world. Tho tyranny Of arbitrary
power, tho tyranny Of custom. tho tyranny
Of najoritios, and OF ,aocinl op-
probrium aro all alike clnhbed
to tho oarth by tho pondorouB blows Of Ills logic.
OF lia latost considerable work. on tho subjcc-
tion OF Women, It may DO remarked that he has
loft nothing to 10 sald by anybody who shall
como after lI1n.. Tho contrnl iloa Of thia work
Ia that tho world cannot afford to rcjcot or rotuBo
to employ n1,y talont tint tho Creator mny Bond
into 1t tl,at history and daily oxporionco teach
TINT womon possess tnlont equally with mon, or,
II not oqunlly, TINT their doioionoy lis due to
wnnt Of oqual education md opportunity. Upon
this he supports the claim Of women
to Nil tho rights which mon roHsesa including
political righss Ho advances this claim upon
utilitarian grounds, lowing tho question Of
abstract right to bo fought ovor by thoso who
hayo tasto for that branch Of tho controversy.
As d nloralist, hIr. D1ill haa boon rockonod tho
apostle Of Utiltarianism, but, rs Mr. Jamca Mr.
tinoau observes in his critical ossay on 1fr. Mills
works, ho foil considerably short Of tho oxpcc-
tationB Of that school, for, although born and
nurtured in tho tonets Of Jeremy Dontham, and
hai1cd by his followers as tho rsing atar in tlor
armament, he gavo only qualified ad-
hesion to their doctrines. To tho younger
generation of English thinkers and litcratenrs,
mud especially to those Of radical bent In poll
tics. Mr.. Mill has boon prophet. His advice
md counsel hayo beon sought moro eagerly dlld
groator deforenco paid to lis opinions than
to those Of nny other man Of our time. Ills
mind was critical rather thnn creative, but nB q
! critic ho wns uu1iya1el. Confidence tn Lis ain
glonoBa Of purpoao and devotion to tho truth,
NJ implicit as that which tho discploH Of gocratca
roposed in thoir toaohor, was tho reward which
ho earned from tho great body Of tho intellectual
claaaoa Of Great Britafn nnd OF Amorica rs vol.
To the Conservatives and most of tlo
aristocraoy Of England ho waR bete noir,
all the moro foarcd and dRlilsod by reason of ha
| Indifference to wealth, power and social profor-
mont. To him the absolute equality Of nl1 mon
| aud women, III respect Of rights aa nombera OF
human society, was too plain for argument, aud
tho donal OF aucl equality wa llt only to DO tho
! subject OF Indignation. =
1Ir. hill loaycs no children to 1nlaorlt Lila
| great abilities and famo. ATius 1Iolon Tnylor.
tho daughter Of his wife by a formor Marriago.
is known to American readers as one Of tho con.
tributors to tho FortntgAtly Reuieio, and as the
editor aud compiler Of tho miscellaneous works
| Of Henry Thomas Buckle.