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Bain's Criticism with Personal Recollections , L. Courtney's John Stuart Mill , Autobiography, Stephens's Utilitarians, J. Grote's Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy of Mill, etc. Geologist, and man of letters, b. at Cromarty, had the ordinary parish school education, and early showed a remarkable love of reading and power of story-telling.
For it is not more prejudiced and much better written than Grote's, while it has greater liveliness and zest than the Bishop's. It occupied more than thirty years in publication, the first volume appearing in 1784, the last in 1818.
From you, however, and you alone of them all, have I received any cordial support personally; and I feel, as I have told you in a former letter, very grateful to you. Meanwhile Lord John Russell had been called upon to oppose Mr. Grote's motion in favour of the ballot.
Mill hadn't the temerity to pass Grote's maxim along to Comte, and so sent a small contribution out of his own pocket. This was very much like the Indian who, feeling that his dog's tail should be amputated, cut it off a little at a time, so as not to hurt the animal. We have all done this, and got the ingratitude we deserved.
Awaiting Castleman's return, we remained housed up at The Mitre, seldom going farther abroad than Grote's garden save in the early morning or after dark. But despite our caution trouble befell us, as our burgher friend had predicted. Within a week Max began to go out after dark without asking me to accompany him. When he came into our room late one evening, I asked carelessly where he had been.
One may find Cowper more profitable than Wordsworth; to another the reading of Bancroft may be more advantageous than that of Herodotus; while a third may gain more immediate and lasting good from historical novels like Eber's 'Uarda, or Kingsley's 'Hypatia, than from a long and patient attempt to master Grote's 'History of Greece, or Gibbon's 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Each individual reader must try to determine, first of all, what is best for himself.
"We will, with Your Grace's permission, remain at Grote's inn for a short time and then ask leave to depart from Burgundy." The duke answered: "As you will. I do not press you. If you change your mind, come to the castle, and you will be very welcome." He turned and, with brief adieu, left the great-hall by the small door near the dais.
Now, the hope that we may, by carrying our researches up the stream of time, exhaust the limits of fiction, and land ultimately upon some points of solid truth, appears to me no less illusory than this northward journey in quest of the Hyperborean elysium. Grote's frankly sceptical attitude represents fairly well the general opinion of the middle of last century.
I was delighted to hear of your C.B. None could be more deserved. The Journal records: July 7th. I dined with Mrs. Grote; one of the first persons she saw after Grote's death. 8th. A banquet was given at the Crystal Palace to the members of the Comedie Francaise, who had been driven over to London by the siege of Paris and the Commune.
Grote's analysis has long since passed into current philosophical teaching, but he will always be well worth reading for his fresh and vigorous reasoning and for the way in which he builds up his own position without denying the solid contributions of those whom he criticizes. Complete truth in the matter seems to us to involve a larger share for the historical element than Dr.
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