JOHN STUART MILL. J69 



i r f * . -. t . ,,,, jealoui interest, It ironld Men Bentham watched that 

 < duoatlon, app< :h'h from u pleaiant little I' it' 1 add] 1 'l to lii '11 by 1 1 < 

 eldoi Mill in 1 1^. " I am not going to die," he wrote, M notwitbftand* 

 i"K y"" r seal to come In fbi I tegaoy. However, If F w< re to die any 

 time before thii pool boy U man, one of the thingi l bat irould pinch 

 me mo I or< ly irould be the being obliged to leave bii mind unmade 

 to th< degre< oi oxcellenoe of which I hope to makfi it. But another 

 thing if , that the only proipcct which irould L en that pain wonld be 

 t.li'- l'-:i.vin;^ him in y"nr handf. I, therefore, take your oflfi r quite < 

 riouely, and stipulate merely thatitihall b< made ae loon ae poi ible, 

 and then ire may perhapi leave bim n nocoHnor worthy of both ofuf." 

 It. -,v;i 1 a bold hope, but one destined to be fully realized. At the time 

 -.I it 1 utterance, the u \><><>\ i<y" wae barely more than Is yean old 

 The Intellectual powereof which be gav< inch early proof irer< car* 

 fully, but apparently not exoeifively, cultivated* Mre, Grote, in hei 

 l:ii' 1 , publl ihed " Personal Life of George Grote, 91 bai described bim 

 1 be appeared In 1817, the year in irhiofa hei bneband mad< the ac 

 quaintance of hii father: "John Stuart Mill, then b boy of abont 

 twelve yean old 11 bewai really only eleven -"wae studying, with 

 in- f';ttlni .1- in-, '.if |>n-f:<!jt,or, under the paternal r<><>\\ Unavu tion 

 ably forward for iii : '. years, And already poftt ed oi fl competent 

 knowl< dgo oi Greoli and Latin, ae well m oi lome inbordinate though 

 olid attainment i, John w;im, ai a J'y, Horucwliut, nj>r< .< <\ ly tin: 

 older Mill, and leldora tool any ihare in the conversation carried on 

 by the ociety frequenting the bonse." [t if, perhaps, noi trangethat 

 :i i<<-y of i leven, at .'my rate ;i \><>y who wai to become so modei I a man, 

 bould not take much pari In general conven ation, and M r. Mill him- 

 i it dm ' r, i" i' (erring to bl father, led bii hearei to nppo i thai be 

 bad, af a child, been In any iray unduly rcpre led by him. The tend* i 

 affection with irhiofa he alwaj oheri bed bii father 9 ! memory in no 



way lanotioni the belief that he irai at any time lubjected to i 



lonable difcipline. By him bii father was only revered ai the i>< I 

 :m<l I in'i' it of teaoherti 



The lad irae, In the rammer of 1820, tent to Prance for a year and 

 a half Por several monthi be lived In Parif,ifl the bonaeof Jean Bap 

 tl te Say, the political economiiti Thereat of his time was paned Is 

 the company of Sir Samuel Bentham, Jeremy Bontham'i brotheri 

 BSarly in 1892, before li< w > i"i't> < n, h< p turned to London, soon to 

 enter the Endia Office ai a olerli In the department of irhioh hli father 



i obleC '" that office be remained Tor five and thirty yean, acquit* 

 ting bimaelf irith great ability, and gradually rifing to the mo t r< 

 iponfible pofition that could be held there by a inbordinate. 



But, though bewai thai early itarted in life bi a city-clerk,! 

 self-training and hii education by hie father were by no meani aban- 

 doned, The ancient and modern languagi roll m the rarion 

 branchei of philoiophy and philosophical thought In which he w\ 



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