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| NOVEMBER, 1879. | |
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| On Freedom. By Professor Max Müller | 369 |
| Mr. Gladstone: Two Studies suggested by his "Gleanings of Past Years." I. By a Liberal.—II. By a Conservative | 398 |
| The Ancien Régime and the Revolution in France. By Professor von Sybel | 432 |
| What is the Actual Condition of Ireland? By Edward Stanley Robertson | 451 |
| The Deluge: Its Traditions in Ancient Nations. By François Lenormant | 465 |
| Suspended Animation. By Richard A. Proctor | 501 |
| John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. IV.—Utilitarianism. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons | 521 |
Not more than twenty years have passed since John Stuart Mill sentforth his plea for Liberty.[2]
If there is one among the leaders of thought in England who, by theelevation of his character and the calm composure of his mind, deservedthe so often misplaced title of Serene Highness, it was, I think,John Stuart Mill.
But in his Essay "On Liberty," Mill for once becomes passionate. Inpresenting his Bill of Rights, in stepping forward as the champion ofindividual liberty, a new spirit seems to have taken possession of him. Hespeaks like a martyr, or the defender of martyrs. The individual humansoul, with its unfathomable endowments, and its capacity of growing tosomething undreamt of in our philosophy, becomes in his eyes a sacredthing, and every encroachment on its world-wide domain is treated assacrilege. Society, the arch-enemy of the rights of individuality, isrepresented like an evil spirit, whom it behoves every true man to resistwith might and main, and whose demands, as they cannot be altogetherignored, must be reduced at all hazards to the lowest level.
[Pg 370]I doubt whether any of the principles for which Mil