Appearing just before his successful parliamentary candidature,
the Examination, with its deliberate and explicit onslaught on the
intuitionists who were, in Mill's view, allied with
anti-progressive political and religious forces, brought his
beliefs into the public arena in a new way. Some of those who
supported him politically found themselves viciously attacked
because they had associated themselves with one who assailed
settled religious beliefs. Other religionists who rejected many of
Mill's attitudes strong expressed their admiration of the
Examination because of its exposure to what they, with him, saw as
dangerous theological and moral positions.
Alan Ryan's analytical and historial introduction dwells on the
most significant philosophical elements in the work, placing them
in perspective and showing their relations to other aspects of
Mill's thought. The textual introduction, by John M. Robson,
examines the treatise in context of Mill's life in the 1860s,
outlines its composition, and discusses, among other matters, the
importance of the extensive revisions Mill made, mostly in response
to critics. These revisions appear in full in the textual
apparatus. Also provided are a bibliographical index, which gives a
guide to the literature on the subject, and a collation of Mill's
quotations, an analytical index, and appendices giving the reading
of manuscript fragments and listing textual emendations.
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