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It is not easy to assess the importance of John Stuart Mill in nineteenth-century England. What he achieved depended more upon his moral elevation and his just estimate of the ends of life than upon any purely intellectual merits.
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Russell, B. (1968). John Stuart Mill. In: Schneewind, J.B. (eds) Mill. Modern Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15313-8_1
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