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at intervals in the India House, but he had changed his residence, and 

 was not available for four-o'clock walks. He could almost always 

 allow a visitor fifteen or twenty minutes in the course of his official 

 day, and this was the only way he could be seen. He never went 

 into any society except the monthly meetings of the Political Economy 

 Club. On some few occasions a little while after his marriage, Grote 

 and he and I walked together between the India House and his railway- 

 station. 



Only three of his reprinted articles belong to the period I am now 

 referring to ; but he must have written for the " Westminster Review " 

 at least one or two that were not reprinted. I can not help thinking 

 that the failure of his energy was one chief cause of his comparative 

 inaction. As an instance, I remember, when he first read Ferrier's 

 " Institutes," he said he felt that he could have dashed off an article 

 upon it in the way he did with Bailey's book on " Vision " ; and I can 

 not give any reason why he did not. 



He wrote for the "Westminster," in 1849, a vindication of the 

 French Revolution of February, 1848, in reply to Lord Brougham and 

 others. In French politics he was thoroughly at home, and up to the 

 fatality of December, 1851, he had a sanguine belief in the political 

 future of France. This article, like his " Armand Carrel," is a piece 

 of French political history, and the replies to Brougham are scathing. 

 I remember well, in his excitement at the Revolution, his saying that 

 the one thought that haunted him was — " Oh, that Carrel were still 

 alive ! " 



It was for the "Westminster" of October, 1852, that he wrote the 

 article on Whewell's " Moral Philosophy." What effect it had upon 

 Whewell himself I can not say ; he took notice of it blandly in a sub- 

 sequent edition of his " Elements of Morality," in reviewing objectors 

 generally, omitting names. John Grote thought that, in this and in 

 the " Sedgwick " article. Mill indulged in a severity that was unusual 

 in his treatment of opponents. I could not, for my own part, discover 

 the difference. Yet it is no wonder, as he told me once, that he 

 avoided meeting Whewell in person, although he had had opportuni- 

 ties of being introduced to him (I suppose through his old friend Mr. 

 Marshall, of Leeds, whose sister Whewell married). 



In 1853 he wrote his final article on Grote's " Greece," in which he 

 enters with enthusiasm into Grote's vindication of the Athenians and 

 their democratic constitution. Ho was, quite as much as Grote, a 

 Greece-intoxicated man. Twice in his life he traversed the country 

 from end to end. I remember, when I met him at the India House 

 after his first tour, he challenged me to name any historical locality 

 that he had not explored. 



In 1854 he had an illness so serious that he mentions it in the 

 " Autobiography." It was an attack in the chest, ending in the par- 

 tial destruction of one lung. He took the usual remedy of a long 



