John Stuart Mill#
Summary#
Nietzsche groups John Stuart Mill with Darwin and Herbert Spencer as respectable but mediocre Englishmen whose influence has gained ascendancy in the middle-class region of European taste. While acknowledging these thinkers may be useful for collecting common facts and drawing conclusions, Nietzsche sees them as representing truths best adapted for mediocre minds, contributing to what he calls a general depression of European intelligence through their “profound mediocrity.”