The sun., 1901-09-08

letters to she HOrHtne ChroHfch uenouh'ihs
the prosecution Of Richard Carlile Tor
publishing the works Of Tom Paine.
pru~~cution which excited the rtghtful
w-ath Of tho utilitarians. Prom the time
WHEN the WsstmiHster Rsrtsv wa started
In the spring Of is7t. he was the most ire
uuent writer for ". contributing thiriecn
articles b-, ,wccn the second and the eigh'
teeu,h number MIR stephen, who has
read these articles. finds that Mil had not
n vet attained his full powers OF expression.
neither the style nor the arrangement OF
the matter had the merits of his later works.
BY far the mos, remarkable among them
was the review Of Whately's Logic IN
january. is2s. here the knowledge dis
played and ~. vigor Of the diction are
pronounced surprising In youth of II.
The article proves. moreover that MIN
was already rejecting upon the questions
To le treated In ld. own Logic. Whli"
thus serving an apprenticeship 10 journal
ism. Mill was going through a notshl"
mental training About the beginning Of
Is25 h. undertook To edit Bentham'S ha-
tionale Of Evidence lie says that this
work socrupied nearly all his leisure Tor
about a year and MIR. Stephen regards
a. marvellous tho accomplishment Of such
a task by a youth Of 20 in a tweivemonth
He had 90 condense large rnar-er of Ben
tham's crabhed manuscript into CON
tinuous treatise: TO 'unroll- his author =
involved and parenthetic sentences. to
read the standard English teatb lok- upon
evidence. to reply To reviewers oi previous
works OF Bentham's. and To add comments
upon some logical points. Finally. he had
To see ave large volumes through the
press Our author, like Mil himself
attributes to the practice thus obtained
the fact that tho editors style became
afterward markedly superior To what
II had been before
The extraordinary amount of labor
which Mill underwent In is2s ~ Connected
by Mr. stephen with the singular mental
convulsion which he experienced In the
next wear lie was. a. he himself says. in
a dull state Of nerves during the autumn
Of 1926 II occurred to him to ask WHISTLER
he would be happy. suppo-ins all his "o-
jects In life could he realized An ir-
repre-sibl- consciousness distinctly an
swered. No He could think of no ply
.ician Of the mind who could rare on, the
rooted trouble Of the brain lie dragged
on wv
isas-27, and the gloom only gathered lie
made up his mind that he could not bear
life for more than a year Gradually &.
however, he recovered. though he suhered
several relap-e- lie learned. h" says.
two lessons first. that. though happiness
must be the end. II must not he the imm"-
diate or conscious. end OF life Ask
whethcr YOU are happy and you will cea-'
% be happy fix upon some end external
To happiness. and happiness will be IN
haled with the air YOU breathe. In TN"
second place, he learned 70 make the -cul-
tiyation Of the feelings one Of the cardinal
points in his ethical and philosophical creed
II was Characteristic Of Mill that he did not
explicitly attribute this mental crisis TO
the obvious physical cause. exceSSiN"
mental exertion He would never admit
that hard work could inJure anybody
He intimated that his deJection Was oc-
casioned by how state of nerves. but
added that this was one Of the accidents
TO which anyone IL occasionally habl"
Mr. stephen suggests that. at any rate,
man would be more liable to II, who. hk"
Mill. had been kept In state Of seven"
intellectual tension from his earliest IN
fancy, and who had gone through such
labor- A. were involved in the editing Of
p..n,han'. RATIONAL. Of Evidence That
his h.al,h was p.rmanently affected there
s,..m. To 10 no doub, Ten years later
ns,s, he WAS -.eized with an obstinate
Arrangement of the brain One symptom
w.s a .ceaseles- .pasmodic twitchiug over
ono eve which never left him In 1850
.no,h., illness forc.d him To take a month";
halliday which IA. spent IN Italy u left
q, ah,ding weakness Of the lungs and the
.,omach An accident In isIs led To a
lo,g iIln.ss and TN. pros,ra,ion Of the
n.ryou. svs,.m. In las. another serious
uln... which caused him TO undertake
n, eigh, months tour in Italy, Sicily and
Cro.c. led ,o tho martial destruction ~
ono h,s- and -sreat general debility
To mite 81 th.-e surerings Mill continued
90 x,rL A. -,r.ni,o,sly A. before, and. until
| IN. illness az ists. showed no signs Of any
d...,,,. ~ intellectual energy
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