By Paul Lockhart
A very good biography….The dramatic tale of ways the yank military that beat the British used to be solid hasn't ever been greater informed than during this outstanding book.”
—Doris Kearns Goodwin, manhattan occasions bestselling writer of staff of Rivals
The precise tale of the Baron de Steuben and the making of the yankee military, The Drillmaster of Valley Forge is the 1st biography in part a century of the immigrant Prussian soldier who molded George Washington’s ragged, demoralized troops into the struggling with strength that at last triumphed in America’s battle of Independence. Praised via popular historian Thomas Fleming as “an vital publication for an individual drawn to the yankee Revolution,” The Drillmaster of Valley Forge rights a old unsuitable by way of eventually giving a forgotten hero his hard-earned due.
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1 » Ibid. BRITISH EMPIRICISM 32 produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings'. 1 But he makes it clear that individual self-development does not mean for him a surrender to any impulses which the individual is inclined to follow, but rather the individual fulfilment of the ideal of harmonious integration of all one's powers. It is not a question of sheer eccentricity, but of unity in diversity. Hence there must be a standard of excellence; and this is not fully worked out. The relevant point in the present context, however, is not Mill's failure to elaborate a theory of human nature.
James Mill died on June 23rd, 1836, a champion of Benthamism to the last. He was not perhaps a particularly attractive figure. A man of vigorous though somewhat narrow intellect, he was extremely reserved and apparently devoid of any poetic sensibility, while for passionate emotions and for sentiment he had little use. His son remarks that though James Mill upheld an Epicurean ethical theory (Bentham's hedonism), he was personally a Stoic and combined Stoic qualities with a Cynic's disregard for pleasure.
S. Mill remarks that 'to reflect on any of our feelings or mental acts is more properly identified with attending to the feeling than (as stated in the text) with merely having it'. 8 And this seems to be true. But James Mill is so obstinately determined to explain the whole mental life in terms of the association of primitive elements reached by reductive analysis that he has to explain away those factors in consciousness to which it is difficult to apply such treatment. In other words, empiricism can manifest its own form of dogmatism.