"nobody here needs to be reminded that the great successes of the world have been affairs of a second, a third, nay, a fiftieth trial. The history of literature, of science, of art, of industrial achievements, all testify to the truth that success is only the last term of what looked like a series of … Continue reading John Morley on intellectual perseverance
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A Curious Episode in the Life of John Stuart Mill
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
Notes in the Margins of the Days 