CRITICAL
MISCELLANIES

JOHN MORLEY

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

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—μἑμνησο ἁπιστειν	[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]
His contempt for socialistic declamation	[68]
Yet the social aim paramount in him	[69]
Illustrated in his attack on Hamilton	[71]
And in the Logic	[72]
The book on the Subjection of Women	[75]
The two crises of life	[77]
Mill did not escape the second of them	[78]
Influence of Wordsworth	[79]
Hope from reformed institutions	[79]
This hope replaced by efforts in a deeper vein	[80]
Popular opinion of such efforts	[81]
Irrational disparagement of Mill's hope	[82]
Mill's conception of happiness contrasted with his father's	[84]
Remarks on his withdrawal from society	[88]
It arose from no moral valetudinarianism	[91]