The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-01-14
JOHN STUART Mill.
President Raymond, OF the State
I University, Lcctured
ON The SOCIAL ECONOMIST
To tho Wheeling Public School
Teachers, at the High School, Last
Nisht-A Large Audience Enjoyed
the Lecture Which was Emincntiy
Thonghtfal-sIilrs Work for HI.
mainly Reviewed.


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r. :,
~ SeFoile H. FayWonu's presiueH1
OF the West Virginia University. leo
tured before tho Wheeling Taarh.rs'
A..a,,.,io, -, ~.
eeS''. 'ntio.' '"sH "'sH'' " tue hs'
school nail, ana the large audience en-
joyel rich and Instructive intellectual
,rs,+ rso ,oo,,no 49, ,.roL,
60. v" ''''''
stuart MIL the English political econ
Omtst, whose teachings areC synony-
mons with tho century NOW closing
,r,,o .ssa.,s.s -. ~" s's
Ing ocCHsloh "ns the quarterly meet
Ing OF the association, and the lee
ture was given In lien of the custo,narv
a.
rvs +''''''e. 40 superintendent an
dersoh salu In introducing President
Raymond, the lecture was not a popu-
1,rro ~, ,.I, .,I.
""""Se' ~ was INTENDED primarily iof
students OF philosophy, and was fine
effort. DR.. Raymond used manuscript
throughout. Miss Elsie Gundling
charmIngly sang u solo, preparatory
TO the lecture.
DR.. Raymond received q cordial re-
ceptlon, and he prcfuced his lecture by
stating that 1t was Intended originally
for college students who were inter-
csted In social philosophy. The lecture
was one OF q series delivered at Nor
gantown.. and the speaker discovered
then that John Stuart Mill, the apostle
OF utllItariansm, was not known as well
as he deserved to be.
John Stuart MIL was n thinker and
q writer OF books, not a man. OF action.
but no man ever influenced the world
more. 1t was not for his opinions. but
his Intense, burning love OF truth, that
Mill was so great: and he seemed to
have Thought ait the thoughts of great
men. He was always ready 10 learn
or unlearn. He was the first promi-
nent economist to accent Thornton's
REPUTATION OF the "wage fund theory. :"
Mill previously taught this theory, and
on learning It's error taught the new
one.
DR.. Raymond asserted Tint no one
man in history was 20 resnonsfhIe for
the present social tenets M Mil The
speaker then rpcfted MINIS bIoeraphv,
showing that the British -economist
was a precocious child. n loyer Of his
tory, and never known 10 tell nm nm
truth. His love OF Roman history made
him ns a boy mn ardent odmIrer ~ the
Roman democracy. and he early form
ed arguments for human liberty. At
the age of thirteen Mil horan tho
study OF political economy. and thirty
yenrs later he deveionnd into the rrreot-
est political econon,ist ,he world eyer
know Rantbnr,'s doc+rjn. - nti,Itas-
iafiism became his religion. hut in
later years he moderated in bis views
II has been said that Nni had No
emotionnl nature. bpt mo one could road
his books ann, relatively and fail To
see hJs emotIo1oI sIda dIs,incti,, NriII
kcnt his emotion subject 10 Mo intnI-
iect HIS emotion was more annarent
In later years when be tnok ~ readInc
poetry. Wordsworth heinr b,s favorite
poet He Iyns also rond of r,usic For
three yeors he SAT IN tho E,nrIish nav
lament and Gladstone mid riowinp
tribute TO his services No matter how
unpopular his attitude he always stood
for the aide Of hi,mnnIty and ha VAS
one of the smafi EnGfisb ,,inor,t,,
whIchFw on the aide or the Nortj,
during the civil var -
Dr Pav,nonI na-, d,so,sooa tha
main nnInts advonceS hv militia ria ,sn,
The golden rula wos tho ideal nr mill.
tarianisri Tho slInnmum hnnum' NJ
life. according IN tho stondord was
not the hanniness Of tho arent hut Inn
hanniness n nil concarnsG rtititoro
Ianism relied on prenchers and teachers
10 bring about bannw stat" ~ afiairs
for nil monkind I,s sanctions nra
conscientious mora1Itv and nrhiic onin-
ion. '-''' - N''N 0t -
SnnakInp NJ tho .dr,,cos AM, wade
In the renIn ~ nhiIosonbv M RAJ
mond noted tho most nrnr,,nn,t In
psvchotory Min shattered and than
imnroved tho theory that We ora whor
we nre because of outward cIrcnns
s,n,cns Gs throw, 49, 49, ,.;s ~
orv Of desnnir bv showI Win ' we c IN, mod.
~ tho ;nfmanoo ~ tbnsa Observation-Disclosures a.. 49,