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Autobiography of John Stuart Mill (Classic Reprint)
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill - Classic Reprint Author:John Stuart Mill IT seems proper that I should prefix to the following biogntphical sketch, SOll1e mention of tho reasons ,vhich have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind nle such :1 melnorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate, can be interesting to the public as a nUlTativ8, or... more » as being connected with myself. But I have thought that ill an age in which education, and its improvement, are the subject of more, if not of l)rofounder study thn,n at any forrner period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which 'vas unusual and rmnarkable, and which, whatever else it lllay have done, has proved how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught, and well taught, in those carl y years ,vhich, ill tho conlmon modes of ,vhat iB called illstruc~ tion, are little better than 'vasted. It has also seemed to me that in an age of transition in opinions, there
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CHAPTER I; 1806-1819; Childhood uml gady ~~ducation, 1,; CHAPTEH II; 1813--1821; l'Ioral Infiuenc(ls in Early Youth, 38, My Fath(J r"~ Ch~r}l}R llL; 1S21-182:i; Last Stage of F:dncation and first of Self-l'Mucation, 62,; CHAPTER IV; 1823-1828; y ollthful P ropognndism, 87, 113, 'Vestminster Hcvi?w, 91, 129; CHAPTEI~ v; 1826-1832; A Crisis in my 1]ental History, 132 Onc St~g~ Onward, ]tI; COXTE~TS; CHAPTER VI; 18~W-1840; Uommen1';ement of the most "V"luable Priendship of my Life, 18-t; )1)' F1tbcr'~ Death, 202 'Yl'iting~ ::md other Plˇoceedirgs up; tQ 18-11 ;20G ; CIIAPTER VII; 18ˇ10-1870; General View of the Hemaindel' of HI)' Life 221} 2:27~ 278) 30S :Con1pletion; of the System of Logic, 2~::! Publication of the; J1rinciples of l)olitic'll Econmny, i3ˇ{ l[arringet 2 10 Het; lrement from the Indi~l Honse, 2ˇl8 rnblic~tion of :, LibeJ'Ly,ˇ'; 2 51 Comidel'ation~ on Ileprc« less