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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty; Thomas Carlyle: Characteristics, Inaugural Address, Essay on Scott; With Introduction, Notes - Couverture souple
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London, May 20, 1806. He was the eldest of the nine children of James Mill, the chief disciple of Bcntham and one of the most important leaders in the Utilitarian movement in England. J. S. Mill as a child was almost incredibly precocious. He began Greek at three, and by the time he was eight had read such authors as Herodotus and Plato in the original, besides such English historians as Gibbon and Hume. At twelve lie was studying logic seriously ;at thirteen hwent through a complete course in political economy which his father gave him in conversation during their walks, and the summaries he made of these talks were the basis of James Mill streatise on this subject. These and other intellectual feats will be found related in the A utobiography, not in a spirit of boastfulness, but in support of more profitable educational methods.. So far young Mill had been educated entirely by his father; but zvhcn he was fourteen he was sent to France for a year, where he mastered the language, learned much of French society and politics, and continued his studies mathematics, econom ics, and science. In 1823 he entered the India House as a clerk in the examiners office, of which his father was the head; rose rapidly, and finally succeeded to his fathers position as chief examiner. His official labors left him considerable leisure, which he em ployed with the industry that had been habitual with him almost from infancy. He wrote for the papers, helped his father on the Westminster Review and, before he was twenty, edited Bentham s Treatise on Evidence. His first original work of importance was his Essays upon Unsettled Questions of Po litical Economy, written when he was about twenty-four, but not published till .;.. In religion, Mill had been brought up an agnostic, and, in phi losophy, a utilitarian of the school of Bcntham; but after a nervous illness in 1836, he bega
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