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MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH. MY FATHER’S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS

by John Stuart Mill (1873) June 19, 2009.

Print: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

In this writing, the British Philosopher Mill recounts his childhood education at the hands of his father James Mill, also a philosopher and historian.