Produced by Paul Murray, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net CRITICAL MISCELLANIES BY JOHN MORLEY VOL. III. ESSAY 2: THE DEATH OF MR MILL ESSAY 3: MR MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1904 CONTENTS THE DEATH OF MR. MILL. Peculiar office of the Teacher 37 Mill's influence in the universities and the press 39 His union of science with aspiration 40 And of courage with patience 42 His abstinence from society 45 Sense of the tendency of society to relapse 46 Peculiar trait of his authority 47 The writer's last day with him 48 MR MILL'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY The spirit of search 53 Key to Mill's type of character and its value 54 Sensibility of his intellect 56 Yet no reaction against his peculiar education 57 Quality of the Autobiography 58 One of its lessons--[Greek: memneso apistein] 60 Mill's aversion to the spirit of sect 60 Not a hindrance to systematisation 61 Criticism united with belief 63 Practical difficulties in the union of loyalty with tolerance 64 Impressiveness of Mill's self-effacement 65 His contempt for socialistic declamation 68 Yet the social aim paramount in him 69 Illustrated in his attack on Hamilton 71 And in the Logic 72 The book on the Subjection of Women 75 The two crises of life 77 Mill did not escape the second of them 78 Influence of Wordsworth 79 Hope from reformed institutions 79 This hope replaced by efforts in a deeper vein 80 Popular opinion of such efforts 81 Irrational disparagement of Mill's hope 82 Mill's conception of happiness contrasted with his father's 84 Remarks on his withdrawal from society 88 It arose from no moral valetudinarianism 91 THE DEATH OF MR. MILL. (_May 1873._)