ment 65

His contempt for socialistic declamation 68

Yet the social aim paramount in him 69

Illustrated in his attack on Hamilton 71

And in the Logic 72

The book on the Subjection of Women 75

The two crises of life 77

Mill did not escape the second of them 78

Influence of Wordsworth 79

Hope from reformed institutions 79

This hope replaced by efforts in a deeper vein 80

Popular opinion of such efforts 81

Irrational disparagement of Mill's hope 82

Mill's conception of happiness contrasted with his father's 84

Remarks on his withdrawal from society 88

It arose from no moral valetudinarianism 91

THE DEATH OF MR. MILL.

(_May 1873._)

The tragic commonplaces of the grave sound a fuller note as we mourn for
one of the greater among the servants of humanity. A strong and pure
light is gone out, the radiance of a clear vision and a beneficent
purpose. One of those high and most worthy spirits who arise from time
to time to stir their generation with new mental impulses in the deeper
things, has perished from among us. The death of one who did so much to
impress on his contemporaries that physical law works independently of
moral law, marks with profounder emphasis the ever ancient and ever
fresh decree that there is one end to the just and the unjust, and that
the same strait tomb awaits alike the poor dead whom nature or
circumstance imprisoned in mean horizons, and those who saw far and felt
passionately and put their reason to noble uses. Yet the fulness of our
grief is softened by a certain greatness and solemnity in the event. The
teachers of men are so few, the gift of intellectual fatherhood is so
rare, it is surrounded by such singular gloriousness. The loss of a
powerful and generous statesman, or of a great master in letters or art,
touches us with many a vivid regret. The Teacher, the man who has
talents and has virtues, and yet has a further something whic