![]() ![]() ![]() Certainly no one has ever been so right about so many things so much of the time as John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth-century English philosopher, politician, and know-it-all nonpareil who is the subject of a fine new biography by the British journalist Richard Reeves, “John Stuart Mill: Victorian Firebrand” (Overlook $40). ![]() The know-it-all, far from living in smug superiority, has the burden of being right the next time, too. Nobody likes a know-it-all, and we wait for the moment when the know-it-all is wrong to insist that he never really knew anything in the first place. It is a hard thing, being right about everything all the time. Mill credited his lover, Harriet Taylor, as the co-creator of his best-known works. ![]()
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