Chapter 1, Footnote #04
Secondary use of induction from political experience
Such, I may observe, is the method actually employed, not only by Bentham and James Mill, but even by J. S. Mill, in his treatise on Representative Government---notwithstanding the views expressed in his Logic of the Moral Sciences to which I have above referred. I have no right to suggest that Mill had consciously abandoned the general conception of the relation of Politics to History which we find in his Logic: but when he came to treat with a view to practical conclusions the question of the best form of Government, he certainly dealt with it by a method not primarily historical: a method in which history seems to be only used either to confirm practical conclusions otherwise arrived at, or to suggest the limits of their applicability.