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Philip beauchamp

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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · pride, vanity, and humility · natural religion · greek oratory · censorship and the press · aristocratic prejudice

Usually: argument (1) · crisis of belief (1) · injustice endured (1) · indignation (1) · skepticism (1)

Autobiography primary

John Stuart Mill · c. 1850-1858
CHAPTER I 1806-1819 > CHAPTER III (4/10)

Mill discusses a utilitarian critique of natural religion’s usefulness (under the pseudonym Philip Beauchamp), then his own early essay writing attacking aristocratic prejudice, and his turn to composing Greek-style speeches.

Dugald Stewart and Brown on Cause and Effect. Brown's *Lectures* I did not read until two or three years later, nor at that time had my father himself read them. Among the works read in the course of this year, which contributed materially to my development, I owe it to mention a book (written on the foundation of some of Bentham's manuscripts and published under the pseudonyme of Philip Beauchamp) entitled _Analysi…