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CONTENTS

OF

THE SECOND VOLUME.

MILL ON Government. (Edinburgh Review, March
1829.).

WESTMINSTER REVIEWER'S Defence of MILL. (Edin-

burgh Review, June 1829.) .

UTILITARIAN THEORY OF GOVERNMENT.

(Edinburgh

Review, October 1829.)

SOUTHEY'S COLLOQUIES ON SOCIETY .(Edinburgh Re-

view, January 1830.)

MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY'S POEMS. (Edinburgh Re-

view, April 1830.)

SADLER'S LAW OF POPULATION.

(Edinburgh Review,

July 1830.).

SOUTHEY'S EDITION OF THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.

(Edinburgh Review, December 1830.) .

SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED. (Edinburgh Review,

January 1831.)

CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS. (Edinburgh Review,

January 1831.)

MOORE'S LIFE OF LORD BYRON. (Edinburgh Review,

June 1831.).

CROKER'S EDITION OF BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.

(Edinburgh Review, September 1831.)

LORD NUGENT'S MEMORIALS OF HAMPDEN. (Edin-

burgh Review, December 1831.) .

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ESSAYS.

MILL ON GOVERNMENT.1

(Edinburgh Review, March 1829.)

Or those philosophers who call themselves Utilitarians, and whom others generally call Benthamites, Mr. Mill is, with the exception of the illustrious founder of the sect, by far the most distinguished. The little work now before us contains a summary of the opinions held by this gentleman and his brethren on several subjects most important to society. All the seven essays of which it consists abound in curious matter. But at present we intend to confine our remarks to the Treatise on Government, which stands first in the volume. On some future occasion, we may perhaps attempt to do justice to the rest.

It must be owned that to do justice to any composition of Mr. Mill is not, in the opinion of his admirers, a very easy task. They do not, indeed, place him in the same rank with Mr. Bentham; but the terms in which they extol the disciple, though feeble when compared with the hyperboles of adoration employed by

1 Essays on Government, Jurisprudence, the Liberty of the Press, Prisons and Prison Discipline, Colonies, the Law of Nations, and Education. By JAMES MILL, Esq., author of the History of British India. Reprinted by permission from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica. (Not for sale.) London, 1828.