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1773–1836 Scotland
James Mill (April 6, 1773 – June 23, 1836) was a Scottish utilitarian philosopher of the school of Jeremy Bentham; also an economist, historian and political theorist. He was the father of the political philosopher John Stuart Mill.
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A certain immense aggregate of operations, is subservient to the production of the commodities useful and agreeable to man.
Elements of Political Economy (1821)
He rather hated the ruling few than loved the suffering many.
The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.
Elements of Political Economy (1821)
The end of Government has been described in a great variety of expressions.
Government (1820)
No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
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 pleasures.
Government (1820)
These, and equivalent expressions, are just ; they are only defective, inasmuch as the particular ideas which they embrace are indistinctly announced; and different combinations are by means of them raised indifferent minds, and even in the same mind on different occasions.
Government (1820)
It thus appears, that if population increases, without an increase of capital, wages fall; and that if capital increases, without an increase of popidation, wages rise. It is evident, also, that if both increase, but one faster than the other, the effect will be the same as if the one had not increased at all, and the other had made an increase equal to the difference.
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