John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Kinzer, Bruce L. | Copyright information

John Stuart Mill and the Religion of Humanity. By Linda C. Raeder. (Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 402. $49.95.)

Among the many startling statements in this book, perhaps none is more jarring than the following, coming as it does toward the end of a remorseless attack on the thought of John Stuart Mill: "An attempt has been made throughout to avoid the imposition of any preconceived interpretive perspective on Mill's writings, to allow ...

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