CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | |
| JAMES MILL | |
| I. Early Life, | [1] |
| II. Bentham's Lieutenant, | [7] |
| III. Leader of the Utilitarians, | [25] |
| CHAPTER II | |
| REFORM MOVEMENTS | |
| I. Political Change, | [41] |
| II. Law Reform, | [47] |
| III. Economic Reform, | [51] |
| IV. Church Reform, | [57] |
| V. Sinister Interests, | [62] |
| CHAPTER III | |
| POLITICAL THEORY | |
| I. Mill on Government, | [74] |
| II. Whiggism, | [98] |
| III. Conservatism, | [109] |
| IV. Socialism, | [119] |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| MALTHUS | |
| I. Malthus's Starting-point, | [137] |
| II. The Ratios, | [147] |
| III. Moral Restraint, | [156] |
| IV. Social Remedies, | [165] |
| V. Political Application, | [174] |
| VI. Rent, | [181] |
| CHAPTER V | |
| RICARDO | |
| I. Ricardo's Starting-point, | [186] |
| II. The Distribution Problem, | [195] |
| III. Value and Labour, | [204] |
| IV. The Classical Political Economy, | [216] |
| V. The Ricardians, | [226] |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| ECONOMIC HERETICS | |
| I. The Malthusian Controversy, | [238] |
| II. Socialism, | [259] |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| PSYCHOLOGY | |
| I. Thomas Brown, | [267] |
| II. James Mill's Analysis, | [287] |
| III. James Mill's Ethics, | [312] |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| RELIGION | |
| I. Philip Beauchamp, | [338] |
| II. Contemporary Thought, | [361] |
CHAPTER I
JAMES MILL
I. EARLY LIFE
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 prophet in his 'hermitage' and the missionaries who were actively engaged on the hustings and in committee-rooms. The special characteristics of English Utilitarianism in the period of its greatest activity were thus more affected by Mill than by any other leader of opinion.