"His systematic account of the nature and methods of 'science', in the broadest sense, attained an authority in England that was positively papal."
— John Stuart Mill

January 1, 1970

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Stefan Collini, 'The tendencies of things: John Stuart Mill and the philosophic method', in Stefen Collini, Donald Winch and John Burrow, That Noble Science of Politics: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Intellectual History (1983), p. 130