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subordinate in the India House under his father, who was resolved 
not to leave him to the uncertainty of the adventurous literary 
life. Steady official duties in Leadenhall Street occupied him in 
the thirty-five following years, at the end of which the East India 
Company was extinguished as a governing power. But his duties 
there always allowed him to have time enough for study. 
He was now introduced gradually to a wider companionship. In 
the winter of 1822-23, he had formed the plan of a little society, 
composed of young men acknowledging Utility as the standard in 
ethical and political thought. At his suggestion it was called the 
Utilitarian Society. It was the first time that any one had taken 
the title of Utilitarian ; but the term soon made its way into the 
English language. John Austin, William Ellis, John Arthur 
Boebuck, G-eorge Grrote, and others, appear among his friends 
and associates. 
He began about this time to show himself in print. His first 
published writings were two letters, which appeared in the end of 
1822, in the “ Traveller ” newspaper, in defence of some opinion of 
Ricardo and his father in political economy. Early in the following 
year he published some letters in the “ Morning Chronicle,” in 
favour of complete freedom of religious discussion, in connection 
with the trial of Richard Carlile for blasphemy. During 1823 
several of his writings appeared in the “Traveller” and “Morning 
Chronicle.” 
In April 1824 the “ Westminster Review” was started, under 
the auspices of Jeremy Bentham, with John Bowring as editor. 
From that time till July 1828 Mr Mill was its most frequent con- 
tributor. He wrote thirteen articles in these years. One is especi- 
ally worthy of note, — a review of Whately’s “Logic,” which appeared 
in January 1828, which it is interesting to compare with the 
modification and extension of the science proposed fifteen years 
afterwards in his own System. In 1827, at Bentham’s request, his 
name was given to the world as editor of that philosopher’s greatest 
treatise, the “Rationale of Evidence,” the preface to which was 
written by Mr Mill : his previous publications were anonymous. 
This work, and the annotations, occupied much of his time for 
about a year. The connection of the subject with the form which 
logic afterwards took in his own hands is manifest. 
