ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about John Stuart Mill at the age of twenty-five. mill may not have been an original thinker of the very first rank. His essay on 'The Spirit of the Age' derives its peculiar interest from the fact that it shows Mill almost at the height of his reaction against his earlier views. Mill's life should have ended in that deep mental depression from which he suffered between his twentieth and his twenty-second year and which he describes in the Autobiography. Gustave d'Eichthal, the young visitor from France whom one of Mill's friends brought on May 30, 1828, to a meeting of the London Debating Society. About the time of Mill's return from Paris an old member of the Mill circle, Albany Fonblanque, had taken over the entire management of the weekly Examiner, a journal with 'the reputation as the chief organ of highclass intellectual radicalism'.
