James Mill
James Mill
James Millwas a British historian, economist, political theorist, and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of Ricardian school and was the father of John Stuart Mill, the philosopher of liberalism. His influential History of British India contains a complete denunciation and rejection of Indian culture and civilisation. He divided Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth6 April 1773
government people acting
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
character men action
Every man should be considered as having a right to the character which he deserves; that is, to be spoken of according to his actions.
mean men desire
If nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men; nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another.
government details should
Exhortations to obstruct the operations of Government in detail, should; Exhortations to resist all.
mean men law
Of the laws of nature, on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences, is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasure.