, 1873-06-22
Mr.. MILLS FUNERAL SERVICE.


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best friends cannot agree regarding the school
| Of philosophy in which he ia to be classified.
The debate as to whether Mr. Mill was or Was
not Utli:arian, ought to be considered practice
ally settled, notwithstanding the efforts that
are still being made to make him one; and
Notwithstanding the error OF SO sharp writer
| as the Rev. Moncure D. Conway, who, in the
| Cincinnati Commercial, says: "The England Of
| to-day sill be known to postority as the age Of
| Darwin and Hill, who have done the same work
in different directions. Darwin hes proved that
the organic world is the sum Of an immeasur-
| able series Of selected utilities; and Mil has
shown that the moral world is the sum Of n like
series Of mora1 and religious utilities" hr.
Conway, in his desire to eulogize
Alr. Mill, has thrown jeremy BenthAm's
cloak upon him, to bring out his figure better.
It is of no moment now to add that Mr. Darwin
is likewise credited with more than is his, for
surely no man has yet prored what Mr.. Conway
| attributes to Mr.. Darwin, and the most e1trava-
CANT statement hlr. Darwin has himself yet
| made upon the subject is, that he belieues that
animals have. descended from, at most, only
four or five progenitors; and that whila
analogy would lead one step further,
to tie belief that animals and plants
are descended from some one prototype,
nevertheless analogy may be deceitful guide" :"
Indeed, it is very doubtful whether evolution,
in its pure SENSE is susceptible Of proof OF dis
proof. 1t is destined to remain theory, unless
geological discoveries occur OF tho most mo-
mentous character; and OF these Mr. Darwin is
not the most sanguine prophet.
It is undoubtedly true that Mr.. Mill believed
himself Utilitarian; but it is equally true that
be wss not one, II the principles Ind down by
Locke are to be accepted against Mr. Mills utter
ances It is true that Mr. Mill, as stated in TIE
TRIBUNE few days ago, sought to be an apostle
Is voll as disciple OF Uti1itarianism, and sue
ceeded in demonstrating that not only WAS he
not believer in the 7icious principles OF that
ism, but that its principles we're too manifestly
vicious for any Christian mind to admit. His
attempt to identify interest ~ and "dutJ," II
his examination Of Bir William Hami1ton's phi
losophy, led him to tho remarkable declaration,
quoted by TEE TRIBUNE, that, if goodness be
one thing in man and another in
God, and the goodness OF God be irreconcilable
with goodness in man, and he must so
to Hell II he did aot worship this sort Of q God,
to He'll he would go. On this, st. George
Mi7azt, in his "Genesis Of Spocies,' in which
he combats Darwin, Says, in the chapter on
"Ero1ution and Ethics:" "This is unquestion-
ably an admirable sentiment on the part Of Mr-
Mill with which every absolute mora1ist will
agreed; but it contains complete refutatlon OF
his own position, and is capital instance OF the
vigorous Life of moral intuition in one who p1o-
fesses to have eliminated any fundamental dis
tinction between tho right and the 'expedi-
ent.'"
Il Ia difficult to classify Mr. Mill Is q philoso-
pher. II philosophy be thought divergent from
exact principles, and not speoulations divergent
from spocul.tions, Mr. 11iI was not philoso-
pher, in the technical sense, at all. He was
neutrality-suspicious.. It is conspicnously in
this capacity that ho has been powerful IN his
county and in his time. It is for his phi1oso-
ply Of politics, and not for his philosophy OF
morals. that the world owes him debt; and it
is this fact which lends extraordinary significance
to volume jnst from the press, which constitutes
another Of the many discourses poured over Mr.
Mills coffin. He did not need to live to answer
the book.
It is entitled "Lberty, Equality, Fraternity"
and is written BY James Fitzjames Stephen,
Queens Councillor, who was one OF Her Majes-
ty'e civil servants in India It ia violent in
tone; but its denunciAton is not so senaeless aa
wholly to deprive its logic Of force. He selects
M1. Mill specifically for his target "because,'
he Says, "no writer Of the present day has e1-
pressed himself upon these subjects with any
thing like tho eame amount either OF eys-
tenn or OF ability" BE processes to aErce
sufficiently with M1. Mill to differ from him
proftab1y; and dissents from bis Giews on hui
man nature and human AFFAIR."" !"
The fault he finds with Mr. Mill, under the
frat head, may be briefly stated, and needs only
to be stated to be forgiven and forgotten. He
says that Mr. Mill overestimates the goodness Of
human nature. He elaborates this with much
persistence. It is OF one Of those crimes Of
which mankind convict man for the purpose Of
covering hi1n with greater honor than An ac-
quittA
Mr. Stephen attacks Mr. Mill as political
economist, or, it is better to say, IS politi-
clan, with decided vshemence. Mr. Mill Was
theoretical democrat. Nr. Stephen is = theo-
retical PeBsimist. From the temper OF his book,
it is not easy to understand why he consents to
live in world which is going with so rapid
speed, and 80 awful certainty, to the devil. To
understand clearly what Mr.. Stephen Assails, it
is nol1 to quote from Mf. Mill himself b succinct
statement OF the essence Of his political Dreams
His constituencies concerning the rights OF
minorities, and the individual rights Of con-
science, draw him at once within the ranks Of
pure democracy and Of pure Christianity. There
is no truer political principle than this to be
found in the dissertations Of ancient OF AmaEl-
can republicans: "There is limit to the
legitimate interference OF collective opinion with
individual Independence and to find that limit,
and maintain it against encronchment, is as
Indispensable to condition Of human affairs, as
protection against political de1potis1n.'
And, concerning the rights Of conscience. Mr.
Mill says: "Yet so natural to mankind is intol-
erance in whatever they really care about, that
religious freedom has hardly anywhere been re-
alized, except where religious Indifference, which
dislikes to have It's peace disturbed BY theo-
logical quarrels, has added it's weight to the
scale. In the minds Of almost all religious per-
sons, the duty Of liberation, even in the
most tolerant countries. is admitted with
tacit reserves. One person will bear with dis
sent in matters Of church-government, but not
Of dogma; another can tolerate everybody abort
Of Papist OF sn Unitarian. Wherev-
or the sentiment OF the majority is still gen
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