

Ī member of the Liberal Party and author of the early feminist work The Subjection of Women, Mill was also the second Member of Parliament to call for women's suffrage after Henry Hunt in 1832. He engaged in written debate with Whewell. He contributed to the investigation of scientific methodology, though his knowledge of the topic was based on the writings of others, notably William Whewell, John Herschel, and Auguste Comte, and research carried out for Mill by Alexander Bain. Mill was a proponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed by his predecessor Jeremy Bentham. Dubbed "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century", he conceived of liberty as justifying the freedom of the individual in opposition to unlimited state and social control.

One of the most influential thinkers in the history of classical liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory, political theory, and political economy. And you, dear soul of my dim past"-she pressed closer to him so that her breath passed across his eyes, and her voice positively sang-"I mean to have you, for you love me and are utterly at my mercy.John Stuart Mill ( – ) was an English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant. I can win you back again and make you live the old life with me, for the force of the ancient tie between us, if I choose to use it, is irresistible. But I"-she paused a moment and looked at him with complete confidence in her splendid eyes-"I possess the spell to conquer you and hold you: the spell of old love. "The motive force was not strong enough it has faded through all these years. "Alone, however, the people could never have caught and held you," she resumed. She fascinated him, as it were, clean out of his normal self. Vezin's timid heart sank with dread as he listened but the girl's eyes held him with a net of joy so that he had no wish to escape. Curated new and used books of esoteric cultural significance.ĭrifting along the dank canals of Venice,
