What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
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What he has done for women is final: he gave to their service the best powers of his mind and the best years of his life. His death consecrates the gift: it can never lessen its value.Millicent Fawcett
Of the influence of Mr. Mill's personal character on those who were his political associates, it is difficult to speak too warmly.
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There is little doubt that the majority of Mr. Mill's supporters in 1865 did not know what his political opinions were, and that they voted for him simply on his reputation as a great thinker.
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Mr. Mill was the one member of Parliament whose high intellectual position enabled him to raise the question without being laughed down as a fool.
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A large part of the present anxiety to improve the education of girls and women is also due to the conviction that the political disabilities of women will not be maintained.
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Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.
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