John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

time and consequently over the actions of his time, seems to me scarcely needful. The facts are sufficiently ob

n on an occasion of controversy between us, by expressing my regret at 'having to contend ag

o occasion for exhibiting it, and partly because some of its most remarkable manifestations in conduct are known only to those whose personal relations with him have called them forth. I feel especially prompted to say something on this point, because, w

sympathy has subordinated all desires for personal advantage, how little even the fear of being injured in reputation or position has deterred him from taking the course which he thought equitable or generous-ought to be manifest to every antagonist, however bitter. A generosity that might almost be called romantic was obviously the fe

bstract, join indifference to them in the concrete. There came from him generous acts that corresponded with his generous sentiments. I say this, not from second-hand knowledge, but having in mind a remarkable example known only to myself and a few friends. I have hesitated whether t

length of time as may be agreed on, to make good any deficiency that may occur, not exceeding a given sum,-that sum being such as the publisher may think sufficient to secure him." Now, though these arrangements were of kinds that I could not bring myself to yield to, they none the less profoundly impressed me with Mr. Mill's nobility of feeling, and his anxiety to further what he regarded as a beneficial end. Such proposals would have been remarkable even had there been entire agreement of opinion, but they were the more remarkable as being made by him under the consciousness that there existed between us certain fundamental differences,

st, who, originally agreeing with him entirely on certain disputed questions, had some fortnight previously displayed his change of view,-nay, had publicly criticised some of Mr. Mill's positions in a very undisguised manner. Evidently, along with his own unswerving allegiance t

e of age which has been conspicuous for some years past, and which doubtless prepared the way for his somewhat premature death, may, I think, be regarded as the outcome of a theory of life which made learning and working the occupations too exclusively considered

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