This paper discusses a chapter that both Mill, his critics and supporters have labeled as addressing the question of whether
Mill's central political and philosophical
doctrines necessarily require as a prerequisite a denial of the existence of God. The paper provides an overview of Mill's life in the 19th Century. The author states that Mill argues that goodness is not something that can be defined outside of the context of actual human
experience and that attempts to define morality in the absence of experience are always unjust.