Thomas Carlyle, response to Mill's death, quoted in Letters of Charles Eliot Norton, with Biographical Comment by His Daughter Sara Norton and M.A. DeWolfe Howe, Volume I (1913), pp. 495–496
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I never knew a finer, tenderer, more sensitive or modest soul among the sons of men. There never was a more generous creature than he, nor a more modest.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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.
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.
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