ABSTRACT
The quiet and retired life to which John Stuart Mill and his wife had hoped to settle down did not long remain undisturbed, however. Probably even the first two years, for which we have practically no documents, were clouded by ill health. Of Mill's only major publication of these years, the article on 'Whewell's Moral Philosophy', which he contributed to the Westminster Review, with its strong attack on Whewell's intuitionist theory of morals, we can at least be certain that it had Mrs. Mill's full sympathy. During the seven and a half years between their marriage and Mrs. Mill's death only one other more substantial article appeared, the article on Grote's History of Greece to which we shall have to refer presently. The first major task to which the Mills turned after commencing life at Blackheath Park was the thorough revision of the Political Economy for the third edition which appeared in the spring of 1852.
