John Stuart Mill. Essay on Coleridge. Essays on Ethics, Religion and Society. University of Toronto Press 1969 Canada SBN 8020 1521 2 London: Routledge & Kegan Paul SBN 7100 6233 8, Page 130.

The only one of Lockes successors who attempted,and achieved, any considerable improvement and extension of the analytical part, and thereby added anything to the explanation of the human mind on Locke's principles, was Hartley.

— John Stuart Mill on David Hartley (philosopher)

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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.