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Title: John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

Author: Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison and Other
Distinguished Authors

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JOHN STUART MILL: HIS LIFE AND WORKS

Twelve Sketches by

Herbert Spencer, Henry Fawcett, Frederic Harrison,
and Other Distinguished Authors

Boston: James R Osgood and Company
(Late Ticknor & Field and Fields Osgood, & Co.)

1873

CONTENTS.

JOHN STUART MILL

I. A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE.
H. R. Fox Bourne

II. HIS CAREER IN THE INDIA HOUSE.
W. T. Thornton

III. HIS MORAL CHARACTER.
Herbert Spencer

IV. HIS BOTANICAL STUDIES.
Henry Trimen

V. HIS PLACE AS A CRITIC.
W. Minto

VI. HIS WORK IN PHILOSOPHY.
J. H. Levy

VII. HIS STUDIES IN MORALS AND JURISPRUDENCE.
W. A. Hunter

VIII. HIS WORK IN POLITICAL ECONOMY.
J. E. Cairnes

IX. HIS INFLUENCE AT THE UNIVERSITIES.
Henry Fawcett

X. HIS INFLUENCE AS A PRACTICAL POLITICIAN.
Millicent Garrett Fawcett

XI. HIS RELATION TO POSITIVISM.
Frederic Harrison

XII. HIS POSITION AS A PHILOSOPHER.
W. A. Hunter

I.

A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE

John Stuart Mill was born on the 20th of May, 1806. "I am glad," wrote
George Grote to him in 1865, with reference to a forthcoming article
on his "Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy," "to get an
opportunity of saying what I think about your 'System of Logic' and
'Essay on Liberty,' but I am still more glad to get (or perhaps to
_make_) an opportunity of saying something about your father. It has
always rankled in my thoughts that so g