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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES

BY JOHN MORLEY

VOL. III.

ESSAY 2: THE DEATH OF MR MILL ESSAY 3: MR MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904

CONTENTS

THE DEATH OF MR. MILL.

Peculiar office of the Teacher 37

Mill's influence in the universities and the press 39

His union of science with aspiration 40

And of courage with patience 42

His abstinence from society 45

Sense of the tendency of society to relapse 46

Peculiar trait of his authority 47

The writer's last day with him 48

MR MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The spirit of search 53

Key to Mill's type of character and its value 54

Sensibility of his intellect 56

Yet no reaction against his peculiar education 57

Quality of the Autobiography 58

One of its lessons--[Greek: memneso apistein] 60

Mill's aversion to the spirit of sect 60

Not a hindrance to systematisation 61

Criticism united with belief 63

Practical difficulties in the union of loyalty with tolerance 64

Impressiveness of Mill's self-effacement 65