James Mill: A Biography

Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882 - Economists - 466 pages

CHAPTER I	1

The Barclays of the Brig	11

Attendance on Dugald Stewart	17

POLITICAL ECONOMY	21

Tutor to Miss Stuart of Fettercairn	23

The Brothers Thomson Dr Thomas and Dr James	29

POLITICAL ECONOMY	38

The Eloquence of the House of Commons is nothing to the General	39

Definition of Rightsthe Civil Code	235

Prisons and Prison Discipline	241

Handling purely deductive	247

Mackintoshs Criticism	253

Proportion of the two classes of Beggars	254

18241829	260

First number of the Edinburgh Criticised	271

18	273

Estimated income on Marriage	45

Edits The Literary Journal 18021806	46

Mill at Home at Northwater Bridge	52

Commerce is not a Source of National Wealth	56

Articles in the Edinburgh Review 18081813	62

Voltaire on different degrees of proof	82

Intimacy of Bentham and Mill then begun	89

Further Articles in the Edinburgh Review	109

Fonblanque in the Examiner	111

powerful argument against the Bellites	117

Grote in his review of John Mills Hamilton	119

Public Events of the Year	123

Brougham for Westminster his Liberal principles	129

The Grounds and Surrounding Country	135

Bowrings Criticisms of Mill wholly wrong	141

The Chrestomathia ready	146

XX	147

Benthams Not Paul but Jesus	152

History of India revising for the press	158

Correction of John Mills statement	164

Anxious for the Edinburgh opinion of the History	170

John Mills reply	175

Warm regard for Ricardo	177

Walter Coulson Albany Fonblanque H Bickersteth Lord Langdale	183

1820	189

Correspondence with Professor Mills	195

1822	201

Zachary Macaulay letter from	204

Prominence given to the Liberty of the Press	206

Death of Ricardo	210

Benthams Views	216

On Mills style and method	222

Macaulays further Articles	229

Constable the prince of booksellers	274

The Attack continued in No 2 by John Mill	277

The perfection of English law	283

Mills conception of the highest human virtue	290

Neither merit nor demerit in belief	305

Miserable condition of the labouring classes	310

Objects to Lord John Russells proposal	316

Ireland its condition would disgrace the legislation of barbarians	322

Society for Diffusion of Useful Knowledge	325

Discussed seriatim in reading society at Grotes	331

Impaired health	337

Zemindars and Ryots	343

Mills Fragment on Mackintosh	350

Persuades Grote to Write on Essentials of Parliamentary Reform	358

The agony week of the Reform movement	363

Grote undertakes the Ballot question	369

Indian Affairs	375

Arises from the spontaneous reflections of middle classes	378

Characteristic features	384

25	385

William Elliss Political Economy Lectures	389

Growing impatience of the people	395

Artificial ranks depress the præmia virtutis	401

Letter to James in India Domestic circumstances	407

Object of the work purely didactic	410

Motive to the composition of the work	416

Ideals of pursuit	423

Beginnings of Reform after the American Revolution	427

22222222233	433

The Birmingham Political Union	439

Effect of Mills article on Government	445

A Mills reading in Edinburgh	451

Title	James Mill: A Biography
Author	Alexander Bain
Publisher	Longmans, Green, and Company, 1882
Original from	the University of Wisconsin - Madison
Digitized	15 Sep 2008
Length	466 pages

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