Morning journal and courier., 1882-06-24

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 principles of our present economic and poltt ical constitution Mill sought like genuin
 radical to remedy the imperfectlons in thei
 carrying out This was an innovating spirit
 French like in it's desire for change To re
 move the evils of cottier tenancy in Ireland
 be advised system of peasant proprletors
 The tyranny of majority rule made him ar
 advocate of proportional representation. He
 unfinchingly questioned the wisdom of
 primogeniture and the ''sacredness" of un- qualified private property in land. lie bold ! lY demanded female suffrage; and what he called the ''subiection of women" made him blush for his sex. Britons stared at these | things But can we Americans forget how ! this same man counter to British preju- | dice at the time of our civil war? Can the l oppressed of any race forget how this Eng l fish Lloyd Garrison espoused the cause of l the Negro when English sympathy-and English money too-were with the slave 1 holder? Again, this logical denunciator of social abuses and half abuses, this sympa \ thizing opponent of communistic fallacies, comes likewise into the domain of self-cul- ! ture with hate like Thackeray's for snob- bishness and sham. He wrote book called 1 'Liberty,''-a modern Philippic-that | breathes the fire of eloquence against the l British slavishness to the respectable propri- cites, the British fear of eccentricity of char acter.
 At every point the attack is against preju- dice, custom, precedent-things which have ! upheld much of England's greatness, but again have bound her down and made her paltry We know to what hollow conven- l tionalism, what lifeless responsibility they had brought her in the days of George Ill.,, when the Ian of Elizabeth could show no trace of the careless May day happiness of the Renaissance-whent the land of Cromwell only moeked the forgotten s!rictness of Pu ritan virtue The concurrent action of many forces has brought about the awakening since then-revival in the church, advance in physical science, growth of foreign influence. But it was Mill and radicals like him who broke the back of that monster preiudlce-a dragon which had defaced England since the days of Arthur and his table round.
 If the utility principle of Stuart Mills ethics was applied in most un English way the other and more prominent half of his philosophy is the culmination of typlcally English tendency centuries old. Not simply is the associational theory descended from Locke and Hartley and Hume for it is English in than philosophical percentage it only emphasizes the Anglo Saxon respect for facts and details, the Anglo Saxon indifference to spiritual ab- stractions When Mill carries the one sided principle of associationalism into the higher stages of philosophic inquiry; when he makes all subjective states-all thought, emo tion and volition-the outcome of objective impressions; when he rests the very axioms of science upon experimental proof and brands the theories of c p1tOrt truth with the stigma of mysticism" 7" he is but dragging to light the innate materialism of his nation he is but dressing out the gods his country men worship in secret.
 Let us not mistake. He talks folly who would have us forget the positive habit of mind or the inductive method of investlga- tion Leave them out of account and you must forego the inventions that ease exist ence and conquer nature. Forget Stuart Mills service to logic and you must find new avenues to demonstrable truth, and step more carefully without the prop you have cast away. How many has his greatest book taught-how many is it yet to teach-to req son more clearly, ascertain facts more exact ly, and less hastily generalize For how many has 1t transformed the Vagueness Of scom1aon sense' into the directness of scien- tiic procedure. Mill quickens logical form aities with applications to practice and the art of life: A second Bacon, he forges anew the weapons whereWith men can battle with ignorance.
 But the human being is something higher than a logical machine. Your science fails to answer that question, which who will say is not born in man, into the minds con- stitution that restless craving of human kind that spur to thought since the days of Chaldean star gazers and Egyptian dream readers. We ask the reasons of our think ing and willing and feeling you refer us to what you call the ''Law of Association" Granted that you explain in some sort of me chanical way the "How," do you answer the "Why?" Do you lift the impenetrable cur tain that hangs before the unknown? or do you but hide it behind a heavier, darker screen? AS one has said, Gould the haunt Ing problems of being be silenced whilst we only listened to the flow and caught the rhythm of phenomena" your theory were enough But in truth and in fact we do need something more-Stuart Mill felt the need of something more-than the precision of exactest science.
 What is it that is wanting for completion, so far as things human cal be complete? Is it not faith, ''the evidence of things not seei, :" supplementing the reason that proves what is visible and tangible? Is it not the idea of divine revelation, which must give men the ground, the very starting point for their inquiry after truth? If Mill had only had that vital conception, while it would not have been for him-nor is 1t for anyone-an explanation of life, it would have It would not have drawn the cur tain entirely aside, but would have shown the presence of power behind Without it, dead naterialism repels us bid ding us not look for life where no life can be found. Without it, the idea of mans native force denied, he is made puppet ln the hands of grim necessity. Without it, law it. self is uncertain in its workings, bounded by the limits of experience. Without it, the acute corrector of science, the radical re- former in politics. becomes the superficial de- stroyer of philosophy!
 But let us remember the schooling of John Mill in this half sighted theory of the world a schooling by the sternest of fathers who ever stifed parental love. Remember how he grew up, ''with wisdom at one entrance quite shut out, ia a blindness worse than Milton's. Do you call it sad to think of the little child loaded with learning almost from his cradle, dosed with syllogisms, when other boys were playing cricket? Do you cali 1t sad to think of the wholesale crushing out Of all natural affection, all sense of humor? It is sadder yet to think that this elaborate in- tellectual training was only meant to rob human mind of it's chief dignity-a human soul of it's support.
 See the result! See the genuine religious sentiment of this scientifically grown man filling the void in his nature with the blind worship of woman Who could have told that broken mourner, lowering about his dead wife's tombstone at Aylgnop, for the hard headed son of hard headed James Mill
 See him again expanding his moral nature under the generous idealism of Wordsworth's verse-this prosaic scientist, to whom Shakespeare was blank /! Then hear his words about Carlyle, II saw that he WAS poet and that I not; that he was man of intuition, which I was not" Listen to the confession that comes almost like voice from his grave-the confession of love and honor for the Christ.
 And in very truth, o Christians, you may learn much from this atheist as you are nasty to call him. In your selfshness let him broaden you, whose heart ever beat quick for others in distress. Soured by your cares see him shedding sunny cheerfulness upon the devout Quakers of Falmouth. In des pondency catch from him the spirit of hope fulness with which he looked forward to the future of his race.
 This preponderance of heart, where do you find it in the creed of Utilitarianism An inborn force has burst the letters of as- sociation Did ever pupil so contradict his teaching? Did ever philosopher so belle his philosophy?