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  • If the highly intelligent and conscientious obey John Mill, we evidently must look forward to the peopling of every land by the most backward and least intelligent part of the nation ....

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • In every moral aspect of the case, John Mill is opposed to Malthus, and his followers have no right to call themselves Malthusians.

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • I feel confident that human population would waste _if_ every man adopted the doctrine _either_ of John Mill _or_ of certain American theorists ....

    Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman Giberne Sieveking

  • When John Mill said that the notion of God's omnipotence must be given up, if God is to be kept as a religious object, he was surely accurately right; yet, so prevalent is the lazy Monism that idly haunts the regions of God's name, that so simple and truthful a saying was generally treated as a paradox; God, it was said, _could_ not be finite.

    Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive Joseph Warschauer

  • What is there in these pages repugnant to writers of the type of John Mill, Jevons, and

    Liberalism and the Social Problem Winston S. Churchill 1919

  • + John Mill reprinted the text of Stephanus, 1550, together with valuable prolegomena and a critical apparatus (Oxford, 1707), and

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Poor fellow, he is craving to be married, and ceteris paribus I suppose humanity allows it to be a claim, though John Mill doesn't.

    The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905

  • Dugald Stewart and Thomas Brown, James Mill, John Mill, and Professor Bain, have followed more or less consistently the same method; and Shadworth Hodgson has used the principle with full explicitness.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • Poor fellow, he is craving to be married, and ceteris paribus I suppose humanity allows it to be a claim, though John Mill doesn't.

    The Life of Froude 1894

  • John Mill was not one from whose lips the advice '_Stare super antiquas vias_' was often heard to proceed, and he was by profession a speculator, yet in that significant book, the

    Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891

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