ABSTRACT
There are few eminent figures in the intellectual life of the nineteenth century about whom some unusual facts are so widely known, and yet of whose whole character and personality, as John Stuart Mill. Most of the dispersed material has since been traced, much of it collected together, and some of the more important documents have been published. The time was therefore just about ripe when a few years ago Michael Packe set out on a new attempt to write Mill's life. Though the emphasis of the book is on John Stuart Mill the man, rather than on the philosopher and economist, the nature of his influence upon the intellectual life of his time stands out all the more clearly against the background of his whole life. The appearance of Hayek's John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor allowed for a new era of Mill scholarship to begin, including Packe's biography of Mill.
