Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . intel-lectual saw, whatJames Mill andBentham failed tosee, that theremay be such athing as despotismof a majority aswell as of a minority. His book is a carefuldiscussion of the fundamental problems of Govern-ment, in which, in his usual fair-minded way, hefaces difficulties without shrinking, and thoughfully in sympathy with democracy, courageouslypoints out its inherent defects and dang
Chambers's cyclopaedia of English literature : a history critical and biographical of authors in the English tongue from the earliest times till the present day, with specimens of their writing . intel-lectual saw, whatJames Mill andBentham failed tosee, that theremay be such athing as despotismof a majority aswell as of a minority. His book is a carefuldiscussion of the fundamental problems of Govern-ment, in which, in his usual fair-minded way, hefaces difficulties without shrinking, and thoughfully in sympathy with democracy, courageouslypoints out its inherent defects and dangers. In his essay on Bentham, Mill gave indication ofdissatisfaction with the narrow interpretation whichthe early Utilitarians gave of the emotional side oflife. Happiness was conceived by Bentham inrather a crude fashion, the happiness associatedwith the aesthetic feelings being practically was clear that in dealing with UtilitarianismMill would come into conflict with the crude viewsof his predecessors. In his Utilitarianism^ pub-lished in 1861, Mill, while holding fast by thegreatest happiness theory of Bentham, endeavouredto give an ideal interpretation of happiness, which. JOHN STUART MILL. From the Portrait by G. F. Watts, (in National Portrait Gallery ; FreJ Hollyer, Photo.) included elements which Bentham would haverepudiated. He was on the right lines, but hehad the misfortune to theorise before the newmass of information regarding mans origin anddevelopment had crystallised round the evolutiontheory; consequently, all that is best in the oldUtilitarianism has now been incorporated alongwith his speculations in a new and more enduringframework. In 1861 Mill turned his attention again to philo-sophy. In hisLogic he had sethimself to con-struct a scienceof reasoning onthe lines of theExperience philo-sophy, but in thatbook root prob-lems were notdealt with exhaus-ti\ely. Now heseized the oppor-tunity of travellingover the entirephilosophic fieldby reviewi
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