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Mill distinguishes three periods in his life. The first was devoted to education and youthful Benthamite propagandism and ends with his breakdown of 1826–27. In the second the influences of “the reaction of the nineteenth century against the eighteenth” streamed in upon him from France and from Germany, from Coleridge and from Carlyle. They did not on the whole, he thought, induce him to ignore “that half of the truth which the eighteenth century saw”. The fight between the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries reminded him rather of the battle about the shield, one side of which was white and the other black. And Goethe’s device, “Many-sidedness”, was one which he would most willingly have taken for his own at this period. Nevertheless he gradually became aware that the impetus with which he had detached himself “from whatever was untenable in the doctrines of Bentham and of the eighteenth century” had perhaps carried him too far in the opposite direction. And in the third period he determined to remedy this tendency.1
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Anschutz, R.P. (1968). The Logic of J. S. Mill. In: Schneewind, J.B. (eds) Mill. Modern Studies in Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15313-8_3
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