The sun., 1901-09-08

though lie soon fOund some rolhce w N'ih'
! lie bought hous, at Avignon. and spent
half his tim" there, To- be nsar his wife :
grave HIS siepdaughter, Miss Taylor
. lived with hin and he expresses hts graft
, tudc for having drawn two such priy"s IN
-th" lottery of life.
II was while Mil led the life ~ a recluSe
/ that he produced his most elaborate ana
/ important works His Logic was pun
! lished In tho spring Of 1888 The book
! wn. the product ot strenuous, long-con-
tinucd thought and Of Influences from
various quarters. The success exceeded
! his anticipation No one snce Locke hah
! approached John Stuart Mill In tn" power
Of making tho problems OF philosophy
interesting To tho laity Mills POLITICAL
Economy Was begun IN the autumn of
1875 and finished by the end Of is+7 This
! treaiis, became popular In d -en~e IN which
| no work upon the same topic had been popu-
| lar since the Wealth Of Nations II owed
/ it, ruccs-s IN n great degree To the constant
| enceaVur to trace the hearing OF merely
| abstract formula upon the general qne--
1 tion- ~ s"cial progress. He stimulated
/ the rising interest in thos' important prob
| lens, and, even II his solutions did not
| carry general conviction. they brought To
| him In later years n following Of reVerent
| disciples The Political Economy repre-
ssnis essentially a development OF the
| Rcardau doctrine In the first edition
| Of the work the author sI-oke decidedly
[ against the prac'icabiity of Socialism.
3 The events of ISIS however. seemed to him
| to open new possibilities for the propagation
/ Of novel doctrines In the interval Mill
seems to have become le-s 81 Democrat.
/ because more convinced Of the lucapscity
! of IA" mass..s hu' n,or, Of Socialist In
: th. sons, that h. looked forward to com
: plate though distant revolution In the whole
/ structure of society lie, accordingly.
| modified IN, part of his book IN which
/ Socialism Was discussed and second
/ edition usIgi represented a more advanced
! opinion.
Mr. Staphan examineS AZ some length
! the Question how far Mill could H. called
Socialist The point of difference was
! that Mill lrlieved Ia competition to the
| las, and wa. 80 far. - thorough -individ-
ualist On the other hand. he held that
/ the forcible acquisition Of land 10y it, first
/ owners was still a taint on th" existing title.
U
4 To tpe nationalized. that tho state ought
| To becom. the national landlord, A. in
| India. and that at any rate. nothing should
/ H. done by which mor- land could &c, into
private hands II. then, the forcible ac-
! auisitiun ~ land 10y its hrSt owners still
J casts "A cloud upon the title is property
/ In other wealth altogether JUST MIL does
! no, answer thi- question fairly He says
B in on. place that movable property has,
/ on the whole. a purer origin than landed
/ property IL represents industry. not
/ simply force On III" other hand. Mill in
| inmates that in IN" acquisition Of even
movable property. there has bc"n a good
deal 81 fraud. and that there have bcen
many practices at which "A person 81 deli
| cate conscience might -cruplc II Mill
/ wa far from the doctrine Of kArl Marx.
! and did not hold that capital l. a merr
| name for the outcoma ~ a proc~-s Of -N-
! ploitation. he admitted ~ least that there
was no such thing ~ J,l-tic" in the actual
I industrial order Wealth he thought. rep
| ra-en,s something very different from a
reward given In proportion tn industry
! In the first place. II is Inherited, and Mill
proposed, therefore. to limit inheritances.
! Again. the poor man certainly doee not
star, on equal terms with his richer rival
H.. that hath not NAV not lose that which
! M, hath, hut he has small chances 81 climb
! ing tho ladder Mil denied hat tho poverty
! Of tho masses Is due Ia law of nature
and imputed IL. partly AZ least 20 the com
! hination ~ capitalists which enables them
10 bring their power 80 hear In Keeping
down the rate ~ wages to an indefinite
extent II u pretty clear that, II Mll's
views werc actually adopted II III" stat"
/ educated, natiunahSed the land, supported
the poor. restrained msrring-, regulated
labor where individual cnmpetition failed.
and used it, power 90 -qualiye wealth u
would very soon adop, state Socialism
and lose sigh, of the reservation which
made Mil himself an individualist after all.
! 4 word should H. said about Mills rela-
,ions with Auguste Comic. Their corr--
s,,ond.ncs hogan In isai. when Mills Logic
wa- passing through tho final stage 81
compnsition u seems that. on taking up.
in 1877. tn. two first volumes - tom;r's
-Philo-ophia Positive Mill had been
d..eply impressed: he read their succcssor-
and Ina November. isti. he wroi" to Comte
As an unknown admirrr. and. indeed. in
| TN. tone 81 an ardent disciple ". accepts
Com,.'s main position. he said. though
| on some secondary questions he has doubts
which may disappear Mil holds that a
| crn-trlc.tiv. should succ,--d to n critical
philosophy and -~cs tho realization Of his
| ho,-. in tho new doctrine lie thinks
with Comic that spiritual power should
| IL. constituted, which cannu, b. reached
| through simple liberty % discussion. and
| l..l,eV-s In n religion ~ humanity destined
| To r-plac., thcolosy Comte took Min for
! m ,ho,,urh convert, A discnrd however
soon showed itself In isia Mn began an
argumen, ~ 60 tho equality 90 the sexes
I which lastsd for some months Comte