James Mill
historical figure · 1 work · 10 mentions · 24 anchored passages · author page
his son
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Philosophic Radical leader of 1832 described paradoxically as belonging in spirit to the eighteenth century.
James Mill, who, though the leader in 1832 of philosophic Radicals, the pioneers as they deemed themselves of democratic progress, was in truth the last “of the eighteenth century”—are each and all of them examples of that intellectual and moral conservatism which everywhere, and especially in England, has always been a strong force.
James Mill, whom the religious world of his generation knew to be a free-thinker, and would, had they been aware of his true opinions, have termed an atheist, was the ally, if not the friend, of Zachary Macaulay, an enthusiastic, not to say fanatical, Evangelical.
Austin may have equalled him in the capacity for analysing legal conceptions, James Mill may have surpassed him in metaphysical subtlety, John Mill had acquired under a course of elaborate training a more complete philosophical equipment, and was endowed by nature with wider sympathies than Bentham;