ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about the years of friendship between John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor. After Harriet Taylor's return from Paris, some new modus vivendi was agreed between her and her husband. The years from about 1840 to 1847 are an almost complete blank in knowledge of Mill's private life and the character of his connexion with Mrs. Taylor. There were other reasons present with both of them which contributed to this retirement. With the abandonment of the editorship of the London and Westminster Review in 1840 Mill had also given up the attempt to inspire an active radical group to effective political action, and thereafter devoted all his free time to the composition of his major theoretical treatises. The Logic was completed at the end of 1841, although it appeared only in March 1843, and part of it was rewritten in the interval.
