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James Mill
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James Mill was a Scottish thinker of the late 1700s and early 1800s who made important contributions to history, economics, political theory, and philosophy. His ideas influenced how people understood politics and society during his lifetime and beyond, and he is remembered as a significant intellectual figure of his era.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1773
- Died
- 1836
- Works
- 43
Top works
- The article Ecclesiastical establishments
- Élémens d'économie politique
- An Essay of the impolicy of a bounty on the exportation of grain
- Conditions necessaires à la perfection d'un code pénal
- The article Government, reprinted from the supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1987-05-06
Discography
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,587x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,213x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,134x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 34,734x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,278x
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Quotes
- “The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.”
- “No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.”
- “This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. ... As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions. But the consequences of our actions are the good and evil of our fellow-creatures. The habit of the neglect of evidence, therefore, is the habit of disregarding the good and evil of our fellow-creatures.”
- “Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.”
- “The distinction, between what is done by labour, and what is done by nature, is not always observed.”
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James Mill (born James Milne; 6 April 1773 – 23 June 1836) was a Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philosopher. He is counted among the founders of the Ricardian school of economics. He also wrote The History of British India (1817) and was one of the prominent historians to take a colonial approach. He was the first writer to divide Indian history into three parts: Hindu, Muslim and British, a classification which has proved surpassingly influential in the field of Indian historical studies.
Mill was the father of John Stuart Mill, a noted philosopher of liberalism and utilitarianism, and a colonial administrator at the East India Company.