by ALAN RYAN , Tutor in Politics at New College, Oxford
John Stuart Mill died at Avignon on 7 May 1873; Gladstone called him ' the Saint of Rationalism,' but how have his ideas survived the century since his death? Alan Ryan , author of The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill , argues that although Mill was no better a prophet than most of his contemporaries, his hopes and his anxieties are very much our own.