Philosopher & Theorist JOHN STUART MILL (1806-1873) Autograph Letter Signed
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JOHN STUART MILL English philosopher and statesman (1806-73); foremost developer and advocate of Utilitarian doctrine of the "greatest good for the greatest number"; championed women's right, human liberty.
Choice Autographed Letter Signed "J.S. Mill," 1 1/3 pages, 8vo, on black bordered mourning stationery, "Blackheath Park," [London], "Jan. 27, 1859." He writes "To the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law" to send thanks to the group for "the honor they have done me in electing me a member...and to enclose an order on my banker for the annual payment of my subscription..." Second page taped to a slightly larger sheet. In very good condition. Not three months earlier, Mill had lost his wife and longtime collaborator, Harriet Taylor Mill, to tubersulosis while they were visitng France. Though he maintained his involvement in the progressive causes - the society to which he subscribes here aimed to reform the British legal system - Mill became a recluse, and died fifteen years later in the house he had bought in France near Harriet's grave site.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and administrator, was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. His views are of continuing significance, and are generally recognized to be among the deepest and certainly the most effective defenses of empiricism and of a liberal political view of society and culture. The overall aim of his philosophy is to develop a positive view of the universe and the place of humans in it, one which contributes to the progress of human knowledge, individual freedom and human well-being.
Choice Autographed Letter Signed "J.S. Mill," 1 1/3 pages, 8vo, on black bordered mourning stationery, "Blackheath Park," [London], "Jan. 27, 1859." He writes "To the Secretary of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law" to send thanks to the group for "the honor they have done me in electing me a member...and to enclose an order on my banker for the annual payment of my subscription..." Second page taped to a slightly larger sheet. In very good condition. Not three months earlier, Mill had lost his wife and longtime collaborator, Harriet Taylor Mill, to tubersulosis while they were visitng France. Though he maintained his involvement in the progressive causes - the society to which he subscribes here aimed to reform the British legal system - Mill became a recluse, and died fifteen years later in the house he had bought in France near Harriet's grave site.
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), British philosopher, economist, moral and political theorist, and administrator, was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century. His views are of continuing significance, and are generally recognized to be among the deepest and certainly the most effective defenses of empiricism and of a liberal political view of society and culture. The overall aim of his philosophy is to develop a positive view of the universe and the place of humans in it, one which contributes to the progress of human knowledge, individual freedom and human well-being.
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