MR. J. STUART MILL.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 75, 2 August 1873, Page 3

MR. J. STUART MILL.

The Church Herald, the organ of a sect whose apostle taught above all things charity, says : “ Mr. J. Stuart Mill, who has just gone to his account, would have been a remarkable writer of English, if his innate self-consciousness and abounding self-confidence had not made him a notorious literary prig. His ‘ philosophy,’ so-called, was thoroughly anti-Christian, his sentiments daringly mischievous and outrageously wild. As a member of Parliament he was a signal failure, and his insolence to, and contempt for, the great "Conservative party were well-known. His death is no loss to anybody, for he was a rank but amiable infidel, and a most dangerous person. The sooner those ‘ lights of thought ’ who agree with him go to the same place, the better will it be for both Church and State. We can well spare the whole crew of them, and shall hear of their departure, whether one by one or in a body, with calm satisfaction.”

The Pall Mall Gazette, in a spirit of tenderness says: “It is impossible to read Mr. Mill’s works with any attention, and in particular to look with intelligence on the latter part of his career, -without seeing that by temperament he was essentially religious, but that as far as positive doctrine went his mind was an absolute blank. .... When he died

one of tenderest and most passionate hearts that ever set to work an intellect of iron was laid to rest. May he rest in peace, and. find, if it be possible, that his knowledge was less complete than he perhaps supposed, and that there was no more to be known than was acknowledged in his philosophy,”