A Hundred Years Ago
" THE SPECTATOR," JUNE 25TH. 1836.
DEATH OF MR. JAMES MILL.
This great man paid the debt of nature on Thursday last, at his house in Kensington. Mr. Mill was one of those men who stamp a new character on their age. We allude not merely to his powerful and original writings, but to the force of his personal character. His History of British India, a work on which he laboured for many years, abounds with the most enlarged views in politics, political economy, and legislation, and, by its influence on Englishmen in India, has greatly contributed to ameliorate the administration of our Eastern empire. Mr. Mill's Elements of Political Economy, and his Analysis of the Human Mind, placed him in the first rank as a political economist and philosopher.
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