person
John Stuart Mill
Mill
also: J. S. Mill, Дж.-С. Милль
English philosopher and economist (1806-1873) whose works, alongside Henry Thomas Buckle's, were staple reading for Russian radical-democratic youth of the 1860s-80s -- invoked here as shorthand for a seminarian's progressive pretensions.
Reading notes
- My Witticisms and Sayings §9 Mill's Logic
John Stuart Mill's "A System of Logic" (1843), a staple of the Russian radical-democratic reading list of the 1860s-80s; the joke turns on a lowly policeman affecting intellectual sophistication.