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The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill · Character

John Henry Newman

Theologian and leader of the Oxford Movement, discussed in Mill's intellectual context.

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Also known as Maurice, Frederick Maurice

First appearance: iii

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See John Henry Newman in iii