Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and exhibiting them in their connection, and also, I believe, in much that is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet...

There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which has been made in the decision of the controversy respecting the criterion of right and wrong. From the dawn of philosophy, the question concerning the summum bonum, or, what is the same thing, concerning the foundation of morality, has been accounted the main problem in speculative thought, has occupied the most gifted...

John Stuart Mill was born on 20th May 1806. He was a delicate child, and the extraordinary education designed by his father was not calculated to develop and improve his physical powers. "I never was a boy," he says; "never played cricket." His exercise was taken in the form of walks with his father, during which the elder Mill lectured his son and examined him on his work. It is idle to speculate on the possible results of a different treatment. Mill remained delicate throughout his life, but was endowed with that intense mental energy which is so often combined with physical weakness. His...

An experience of five years with Mr. Mill's treatise in the class-room not only convinced me of the great usefulness of what still remains one of the most lucid and systematic books yet published which cover the whole range of the study, but I have also been convinced of the need of such additions as should give the results of later thinking, without militating against the general tenor of Mr. Mill's system; of such illustrations as should fit it better for American students, by turning their attention to the application of principles in the facts around us; of a bibliography which should...

"A System Of Logic - Ratiocinative And Inductive" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).

"A System of Logic - Ratiocinative and Inductive - Volume I" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).

"Auguste Comte and Positivism" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).

"Autobiography" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).

"Considerations on Representative Government" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).

"Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy" from John Stuart Mill. English philosopher, political economist and civil servant (1806-1873).