[115] Sir C. P. Ilbert, however, is mistaken in supposing that Fitzjames wrote his Liberty, Equality, Fraternity during his official labours.
[116] Life of Mayo, ii. 163.
[117] In Selections from the Records of the Government of India, No. lxxxix., published by authority. Calcutta, 1872.
[118] I do not feel that it would be right to omit this remark, although I am certain that, taken by itself, it would convey a totally inaccurate impression of my brother's sentiments about India. I have, I hope, said enough to indicate his sympathetic interest in Indian matters and the work of Indian officials. I must trust my readers to understand that the phrase expresses a mood of intense excitement and must be taken only as indicating the strength of the passing emotion.
[119] The first volume of his Civilization in Europe appeared in 1857.
[120] Mill elaborately argues that the social sciences are possible precisely because the properties of the society are simply the sum of the properties of the individuals of which it is composed. His view of the importance of this theory is given in his Autobiography (first edition), p. 260. And see especially his Logic, Bk. vi. chap. vii.
[121] Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, p. 212. (My references are to the second edition.)
[122] P. 17.
[123] P. 10. This is almost literally from Bentham, who gives several similar classifications of 'sanctions.'
[124] P. 19.