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Bentham's mantle fell upon James Mill.[1] Mill expounded in the tersest form the doctrines which in Bentham's hands spread into endless ramifications and lost themselves in minute details. Mill became the leader of Bentham's bodyguard; or, rather, the mediator between the prop...
The politicians and economists, of whom I have spoken, took first principles for granted. The intellectual temperament, which made certain methods congenial to them, would no do...
10. Chapter 10I now turn to the general political theory of which Mill was the authoritative exponent. The _Encyclopædia_ article upon 'Government' (1820) gives the pith of their doctrine. It...
12. Chapter 12David Ricardo,[294] born 19th April 1772, was the son of a Dutch Jew who had settled in England, and made money upon the Stock Exchange. Ricardo had a desultory education, and w...
11. Chapter 11The political movement represented the confluence of many different streams of agitation. Enormous social changes had generated multifarious discontent. New wants and the new st...
15. Chapter 15The application of Mill's _Analysis_ to the views of orthodox theologians required, one might have supposed, as little interpretation as a slap in the face. But a respectable ph...
8. Chapter 8Bentham's mantle fell upon James Mill.[1] Mill expounded in the tersest form the doctrines which in Bentham's hands spread into endless ramifications and lost themselves in minu...
9. Chapter 9The last years of Mill's life correspond to the period in which Utilitarianism reached, in certain respects, its highest pitch of influence. The little band who acknowledged him...
13. Chapter 13The Economic theory became triumphant. Expounded from new university chairs, summarised in text-books for schools, advocated in the press, and applied by an energetic party to s...
5. Chapter 54. Chapter 42. Chapter 21. Chapter 13. Chapter 37. Chapter 76. Chapter 6