...study of Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion. " If we consider further," his son tonchingly says, " that he was in the trying position of sole teacher,...that his temper was constitutionally irritable, it Personal Recollections, from early Life to old Age, of Mary Somervitle. With Selections from her Correspondencs....

...which was chiefly deficient in his moral relation to his children was that of tenderness " (p. 51). " If we consider further that he was in the trying position...irritable, it is impossible not to feel true pity for [children rather than] a father who did, and strove to do, so much for his children, who would have...

...authority was deficient in the demonstration of tenderness, though probably not in the reality of it; that "he resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of...of demonstration starving the feelings themselves." Then the son goes on to say that it was ' ' impossible not to feel true pity for a father who did,...

...authority was deficient in the demonstration of tenderness, though probably not in the reality of it, that "he resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of...of demonstration starving the feelings themselves." Then the son goes on to say that it was "impossible not to feel true pity for a father who did, and...

...emotions of all sorts, James Mill professed the greatest contempt. " He resembled," says his son, " most Englishmen in being ashamed of the signs of feeling,...of demonstration starving the feelings themselves." After such education, John Stuart Mill followed his father's steps in the East India House, and rose,...

...to know, than to do," and it might be added, than to feel also. For Mill confesses that his father resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of the signs of feeling, and by absence of demonstration starving the feelings themselves. As to his own nature in this respect, he...

...children was that of tenderness. I do not believe that this deficiency lay in his own nature, but that he resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of the...of demonstration starving the feelings themselves. For passionate emotion of all sorts my father had the greatest contempt. The intense was with him a...

...greater capacities of feeling than were ever developed in him and that in this he resembled "almost all Englishmen in being ashamed of the signs of feeling...demonstration, starving the feelings themselves." Then, in one of the few references to his mother, he explained further: In an atmosphere of tenderness...

...obeyed, required qualities which she unfortunately did not possess.13 As for his father, said Mill, He resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of the...the feelings themselves. If we consider further that his temper was constitutionally irritable, it is impossible not to feel true pity for a father who...

...feeling than he habitually showed, and much greater capacities of feeling than were ever developed. He resembled most Englishmen in being ashamed of the...demonstration, starving the feelings themselves." There is, perhaps, one fact about the Autobiography which explains Mill's obvious lack of resentment...