The amiable and kindly, whose sympathies are quickly moved, gain an unfair share of our regard both in life and afterwards. We are more pleased by an ineffectual attempt to be kindly, than by real kindness bestowed ungraciously. Mill's great qualities should not be overlooked because they were hidden by a manner which seems almost deliberately repellent. He devoted himself through life to promote the truth as he saw it; to increase the scanty amounts of pleasures enjoyed by mankind; and to discharge all the duties which he owed to his neighbours. He succeeded beyond all dispute in forcibly presenting one set of views which profoundly influenced his countrymen; and the very narrowness of his intellect enabled him to plant his blows more effectively. FOOTNOTES: [1] The chief authority for James Mill is _James Mill: a Biography_, by Alexander Bain, Emeritus Professor of Logic in the University of Aberdeen, London, 1882. The book contains very full materials; and, if rather dry, deals with a dry subject. [2] Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 70 _n._ [3] Bain's _James Mill_, p. 166. [4] Gifford's real name was John Richards Green. The identity of his assumed name with that of the more famous William Gifford has led to a common confusion between the two periodicals. 'Peter Pindar' assaulted William Gifford under the erroneous impression that he was editor of the second. [5] Letter in Bain's _James Mill_, pp. 136-40. [6] _Autobiography_, p. 39. [7] Bain's _James Mill_, pp. 97-106. Mill appears to have said something 'extravagant' about Bentham in an article upon Miranda in the _Edinburgh Review_ for January 1809. He also got some praises of Bentham into the _Annual Review_ of 1809 (Bain, 92-96). [8] See the very interesting Life of Francis Place, by Mr. Graham Wallas, 1898. [9] Bain's _James Mill_, p. 78, and Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 66. [10] Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 68. [11] He 'put together' the _Not Paul but Jesus_ at Ford Abbey in 1817, and helped to preface the Reform _Catechism_. Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 84. [12] The article of 1811 was also published separately. [13] He wrote only the first volume. Two others were added by Cuthbert Southey. [14] _Lectures_ (Ashe, 1885), pp. 32, 61. [15] James Mill, according to Place, wrote a 'memorable and admirable essay, "Schools for all, not schools for Churchmen only."'--Wallas's _Francis Place_, 99 _n._ [16] This absurd suspicion was aroused by the quarrel about Burdett's arrest. See Wallas's _Place_, p. 56. [17] Mr. Wallas gives an account of these schemes in chap. iv. of his Life of Place. I have also consulted Place's collections in Additional MSS., 27,823. [18] Bain's _James Mill_, p. 162. [19] H. H. Wilson in his preface to the edition of 1840. [20] Wallas's _Francis Place_, p. 78. [21] Bain's _James Mill_, p. 435. [22] _Ibid._ p. 433. [23] Bentham's _Works_, p. 498. [24] See Carman in _Economic Review_, 1894.