John Stuart Mill, 'Coleridge', London and Westminster Review (March 1840), quoted in John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and Discussions Political, Philosophical, and Historical. Vol. I (1859), p. 393

He has been the great awakener in this country of the spirit of philosophy, within the bounds of traditional opinions.

— John Stuart Mill on Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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John Stuart Mill

About John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), also known as J. S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism.