John Stuart Mill 1806-1873

An important philosopher, who wrote about ethics, logic, political science, and
philosophy of science. 
A man of the English intellectual establishment. 
A moderate leftist reformer who ran for Parliament

Vindication... 1869
	Four years after the end of slavery in America

Privately educated  
Mill learned Greek at 3, Latin at 8

Working for East India Company, which ran India from London
His life as described in his Autobiography

His great intellectual crisis

1826 "I was in a dull state of nerves... unsusceptible to enjoyment or
pleasurable enjoyment.... 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized;
that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward
to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy
and happiness to you?' And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly
answered, 'No!'.... I seemed to have nothing left to live for."

"I felt that unless I could see my way to some better hope... for human happiness
in general, my dejection must continue."

Meeting Mrs. Taylor

"My first introduction to the lady who, was in 1830, when I was in my 25th and
she in her 23rd year.... I very soon felt her to be the most admirable person I
had ever known.... A woman of deep and strong feeling, of penetrating and
intuitive intelligence.... Married at a very early age, to a most upright, brave,
and honorable man... without the intellectual or artistic tastes which would have
made him a companion for her.... 
To be admitted into any degree of mental intercourse with a being of these
qualities could not but have a most beneficial influence on my development...."

She had two sons. Twenty one years later, after he husband's death, she married
Mill. 

In 1865 standing for election, he favored female suffrage
	Amending a bill to read 'person' instead of 'man'.