What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
“The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.”
“I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.”