[134] Pp. 234-341. The preface to this volume is dated February 1874.
[135] Martineau's conception discussed by Spencer is hampered by a theory of Matter difficult per se.
[136] See back pp. 76-8 and 107 (end of note) and connect with these passages the oft-repeated Wordsworthian maxim:—
"We murder to dissect."
[137] See our Chapter VI. On Causation.
[138] The paragraph cited in the text of Chapter III. concludes with these words:—"I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go."
Now, no man can sit down and calculate himself into Mr. Mill's conviction thus enounced; neither could any cool process of argument have ever kindled such a flame. A sternness of purpose like his must be either the skeleton-armour covering the thoughtless boy in Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, or it is the reflection of a light intuitively flashed through the soul—the echo of a chord struck upon the writer's very heart-strings. Such and so deep, beyond doubt, was the ingenuous feeling of Mr. Mill.
[139] La Science au point de Vue Philosophique, pp. 539-542.
[140] Psychological Inquiries, second part, pp. 195-197.
[141] Address (Presidential) to British Association at Liverpool, 1870, p. 15.