The statue of the late Mr. John Stuart Mill on
the Thames Embankment was formally unveiled and handed over by the subscribers to the Metropolitan Board of Works last Saturday, when Mr. Fawcett made a speech, in which he did full justice to Mr. Mill's great merits as a thinker, a teacher, and a man, and perhaps something more than full justice to his philosophy. At least if by the sneer in which he commented on those who tried to win reputations by a "series of petty criticisms," he intended to refer to the most remarkable by far of the criticisms which have lately appeared on Mr. Mill's philosophy, he did great injustice both to Mr. Mill and to Professor Stanley Jevons. No one would have been more forward than Mr. Mill himself, to acknowledge the weight and force of many of these criticisms, and no one would have been less likely to reflect on the author of them as wishing to win reputation by petty cavils. Very possibly, however, Mr. Fawcett referred to criticisms of a very different character, but if he did, it would have been well to guard himself by indicating the true objects of his attack, which are not very apparent. For our own parts, we believe that Mr. Mill as an economist will long outlive Mr. Mill as a logician, but that to those who knew the depth of his nature, Mr. Mill as a man was probably greater than either.
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