ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that what might be rescued of John Stuart Mill's argument was one thing that drew the discussion of the "Art of Life" in Book VI of the A System of Logic. Mill's insistence in Logic that "art" and "science" are essentially different is neither the only nor the first place where he draws the distinction as he does there. In the Mill's essay on definition and method in political economy, he says firmly that the notion that political economy is the science that shows a nation how to become wealthy confuses the science of political economy with the art of becoming wealthy. The chapter concerns Mill stemmed from the interest in the philosophy of the social sciences, and this embraced a curiosity about Mill's references to his moral philosophy as 'inductive' in distinction to the a priori morality of the intuitionists represented by William Whewell.
