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This left him in a depression for five years,
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but at age 25,
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what helped lift him out of this depression is that he met Harriet Taylor.
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She and Mill got married, they lived happily ever after,
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and it was under her influence
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that John Stuart Mill tried to humanize utilitarianism.
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What Mill tried to do was to see
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whether the utilitarian calculus could be enlarged and modified
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to accommodate humanitarian concerns,
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like the concern to respect individual rights,
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and also to address the distinction between higher and lower pleasures.
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In 1859, Mill wrote a famous book on liberty,