In another article on periodical literature for the Westminster Review,* the Scottish radical James Mill (1777-1836) turned his attention to the Quarterly Review, the most authoritative Tory publication. Whereas the Edinburgh Review, with its Whig politics, employed what Mill called the see-saw - in the main supporting the aristocracy, but sometimes making common cause with … Continue reading James Mill on Periodical Literature (II) →

This is a continuation of my notes on Bentham and Grote's Analysis of the Influence of Natural Religion Upon the Temporal Happiness of Mankind (1822). Part II discusses the discrete harms natural religion causes to the individual and society. Part II - Catalogue of the various modes in which natural religion is mischievous. Chapter 1 … Continue reading Jeremy Bentham and George Grote on Natural Religion (Part II) →