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Title: Autobiography

Author: John Stuart Mill

Release Date: December 4, 2003 [EBook #10378]

Language: English

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY

by

JOHN STUART MILL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I 1806-1819

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION

CHAPTER II 1813-1821

MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH--MY FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS

CHAPTER III 1821-1823

LAST STAGE OF EDUCATION, AND FIRST OF SELF-EDUCATION

CHAPTER IV 1823-1828

YOUTHFUL PROPAGANDISM--THE "WESTMINSTER REVIEW"

CHAPTER V 1826-1832

A CRISIS IN MY MENTAL HISTORY--ONE STAGE ONWARD

CHAPTER VI 1830-1840

COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOST VALUABLE FRIENDSHIP OF MY LIFE--MY FATHER'S
DEATH--WRITINGS AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS UP TO 1840

CHAPTER VII 1840-1870

GENERAL VIEW OF THE REMAINDER OF MY LIFE.--COMPLETION OF THE "SYSTEM
OF LOGIC"--PUBLICATION OF THE "PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY"
--MARRIAGE--RETIREMENT FROM THE INDIA HOUSE--PUBLICATION OF "LIBERTY"
--"CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT"--CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA
--EXAMINATION OF SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON'S PHILOSOPHY--PARLIAMENTARY LIFE
--REMAINDER OF MY LIFE

CHAPTER I

CHILDHOOD AND EARLY EDUCATION

It seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch
some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I
should leave behind me such a memorial 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 narrative or as being connected with
myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its
improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at
any former period of English history, it may be useful th