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John Stuart Mill
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by
JOHN STUART MILL
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 that there should be
some record of an education which was unusual and remarkable,
and which, whatever else it may have done, has proved
how much more than is commonly supposed may be taught,...
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