From annotations written by John Stuart Mill on his personal copies of the first editions of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Essays, which were published in two volumes, in 1841 and 1844. The notes were found by Frank Prochaska at the John Stuart Mill Library at Somerville College, Oxford, earlier this year.

What a boy this man is
All this is the philosophy of a youth and of youth only when educated in the old traditions
When will people dare to give up the old religious nomenclature?
Nonsense — we don’t live for “beautiful” or any such child’s play
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