This article explores the basis for the well-known hostility of William Stanley Jevons toward John Stuart Mill, and offers an alternative explanation to those which have hitherto dominated discussion. After reviewing the importance of disagreements over economic doctrine and questions of scientific method, as well as the “psychological dimension” to the hostility, the article makes the case for considering a “fourth dimension”: the centrality of religion and, more particularly, an urgent fear of religious unbelief in the 1860s and 1870s. The article concludes that by identifying religion at the root of Jevons’s hostility to Mill we are reminded of the need to routinely consider religion and religious concerns when analyzing later nineteenth-century political economy.

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威廉·斯坦利·杰文斯对约翰·斯图尔特·米尔的敌意

本文探讨了众所周知的 William Stanley Jevons 对 John Stuart Mill 的敌意的基础，并为迄今为止主导讨论的那些提供了另一种解释。在回顾了在经济学说和科学方法问题上的分歧的重要性，以及敌意的“心理维度”之后，本文提出了考虑“第四维度”的理由：宗教的中心性，尤其是1860 年代和 1870 年代对宗教不信仰的迫切恐惧。文章的结论是，通过确定杰文斯对密尔的敌意的根源在于宗教，我们被提醒在分析 19 世纪后期的政治经济学时需要经常考虑宗教和宗教问题。