John Stuart Mill Harriet Taylor Myth
JOHN STUART MILL AND THE HARRIET TAYLOR MYTH H. O. PAPPE THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY SOCIAL SCIENCE MONOGRAPH 19 John Stuart Mill and the Harriet Taylor Myth H. O. PAPPE RESEARCH FELLOW IN SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS ON BEHALF OF THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY FIRST PUBLISHED i960 PRINTED AND BOUND IN AUSTRALIA BY MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS, PARKVILLE N. 2, VICTORIA REGISTERED IN AUSTRALIA FOR TRANSMISSION BY POST AS A BOOK London and New York: Cambridge University Press Ottilie followed the conversation attentively though she took no part in it. The next morning Eduard said to Charlotte: ‘She is a pleasant and interesting girl.’ ‘Interesting,’ Charlotte replied with a smile, ‘why, she never said a word.’ ‘Did she not,’ Eduard rejoined while he seemed to retrace his thoughts, ‘how very strange . .’ —Goethe, Elective Affinities Thus let thy power, which like the truth Of nature on my passive youth Descended, to my onward life supply Its calm—to one who worships thee, And every form containing thee, Whom, Spirit fair, thy spells did bind To fear himself, and love all human kind. —Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty However urgent may be the necessity for a breaking up of old modes of belief, the most strong-minded and discerning, next to those who head the movement, are generally those who bring up the rear of it. —John Stuart Mill, Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties Amis, qu’est-ce qu’une grande vie sinon une pens6e de la jeunesse ex^cutöe par l’äge mür? —Alfred de Vigny, Cinq-Mars, xx PREFACE I have not used any unpublished source material for this study.
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