William Thomas Thornton, one of John Stuart Mill's colleagues at the East India Company, (and a writer on political economy—it seems the Company's employees were involved in serious intellectual activities, of a kind that we can scarcely imagine taking place among the professional classes today), recorded a remarkable episode in Mill's life in a book … Continue reading A Curious Episode in the Life of John Stuart Mill
Month: Apr 2025
James Mill on the Law of Nations
In another of his essays for the supplement to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Scottish radical James Mill considered the Law of Nations—or what we today know as international law—and how such laws might be enforced. Mill remarks upon the general outlawry that characterises international relations thus: "Have nations, in reality, combined, so constantly and steadily, … Continue reading James Mill on the Law of Nations
Notes in the Margins of the Days 