Mill and Emerson: Sense and Nonsense

Frank Prochaska has made a remarkable discovery in the personal library of John Stuart Mill. It proves that Mill not only read the works of his American contemporary, Ralph Waldo Emerson, but was surprisingly harsh in his judgement of him. 

Lithograph from a photograph of Emerson in 1859

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