...and application of the one fundamental principle of the utilitarian school. Of this change he says: " If I am asked what system of political philosophy...abandoned, I answer, no system ; only a conviction hat the true system was something much more complex and many-sided than I had previously had any idea...

...what system of political philosophy he had substituted for that which he had abandoned, he replied, " No system ; only a conviction that the true system was something much more complex and many sided than I had previously had an)idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model...

...Benthamite doctrine. He reported that he had replaced it with no other system of political philosophy, "only a conviction that the true system was something much more complex and many-sided than I previously had any idea of. . . ,"68 Bentham, with his faith in utilitarianism, and Cobden, with his...

...moral nature 77. Mill, Autobiography (New York, 1924), chap. v. pp. 120-21. Cf. also ibid., p. 113: "If I am asked, what system of political philosophy...something much more complex and many-sided than I previously had any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model institutions, but...

...later speculations is this inordinate demand for "unity" and "systematization" ' (p. 141). By contrast, 'If I am asked what system of political philosophy...a philosophy, I had abandoned, I answer, no system . . .' (Autobiography, 97). Before describing the main features of that scheme, however, we need to...

...increasing publicity. Having turned away from Betham's Utilitarianism, Mill writes: "If I am [now] asked what system of political philosophy I substituted...only a conviction that the true system was something more complex and many-sided than I had previously had any idea of." Establishing the true system depends...

...'mental crisis.' He had abandoned Benthamism as a philosophical system; in its place he had acquired 'a conviction, that the true system was something much more complex and many sided than I had previously any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model...

...Any true system of political understanding, he said, "is something much more complex and many sided than I had previously had any idea of, and that its...set of model institutions, but principles from which institutions suitable to any given circumstances might be deduced." More specifically, Mill ceases...

...weeks during the summer at Mickleham. Having survived his crisis, Mill took stock of where he was: Ifl am asked what system of political philosophy I substituted...the true system was something much more complex, and many sided than I had previously had any idea of, and that its office was to supply, not a set of model...

...the pursuit of new ideas. He now felt that there was no single system of ideas that was correct and that "the true system was something much more complex...many-sided than I had previously had any idea of." His mind was therefore open to new influences, including those of the Saint-Simonians, who saw history...