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active and deeply interested member of the House of Commons — 
sessions of Parliament which passed the second Reform Bill. He 
spoke occasionally, and was heard with respect and curiosity, as 
the representative of large philosophical principles and a sort of 
philanthropic socialism. The advocacy of women’s suffrage is that 
perhaps with which his Parliamentary name is most associated. In 
these years in England, he lived at Blackheath. 
One result of the general election in November 1868 was to send 
Mr Mill hack to his old pursuits, and to seclusion at Avignon. The 
Parliamentary episode had not indeed entirely interrupted his 
studies. In 1866 he read through Plato, as a preparation for a 
review of G-rote. A fervid pamphlet in the same year, on “ England 
and Ireland,” urged a radical reform in the land system of the sister 
island. In 1867 he delivered an elaborate address on the Higher 
Education to the students of the University of St Andrews, who 
had chosen him as their Rector. He was also employed about a 
new edition of his father’s “ Analysis of the Human Mind,” in 
conjunction with Mr G-rote, Professor Bain, and our townsman Dr 
Findlater, which was published in 1869. 
The years which followed Mr Mill’s short Parliamentary career 
were mostly spent at Avignon, where he continued his life of 
literary labour. His essay on the “ Subjection of Women” ap- 
peared in 1869, and this, with his efforts in Parliament, helped 
to make the education, and the political and social condition of the 
sex one of the questions of the day. His last published writing in 
philosophy of which I am aware was a review, in November 1871, 
of the Clarendon Press edition of Berkeley’s works. He had always 
been a great admirer of Berkeley. In this essay he expresses the 
opinion that “of all who from the earliest times have applied the 
powers of their minds to metaphysical inquiries, Berkeley was the 
one of greatest philosophical genius; though among these are 
included Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hartley, and Hume, as well as 
Des Cartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Kant.” But it was the negative 
and analytic side of Berkeley that he admired ; he had no appre- 
ciation of the constructive part of his doctrine, on which Berkeley 
himself lays most stress. 
In March of last year, Mr Mill visited London, and lived for 
six weeks in a suite of rooms he had taken in Victoria Street, 
