Excerpt from The History of a Great Mind: A Survey of the Education and Opinions of John Stuart Mill No man of culture, least of all a cultivated educator, can fail to be interested in Mr. Mill's intellectual history. How was this great mind trained? Until recently, this question could not be specifically answered. It was generally known that Mr. Mill was not a university man, but that he had been educated by his father, Mr. James Mill, the historian of British India, and the author of the Analysis of the Human Mind. But ...
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Excerpt from The History of a Great Mind: A Survey of the Education and Opinions of John Stuart Mill No man of culture, least of all a cultivated educator, can fail to be interested in Mr. Mill's intellectual history. How was this great mind trained? Until recently, this question could not be specifically answered. It was generally known that Mr. Mill was not a university man, but that he had been educated by his father, Mr. James Mill, the historian of British India, and the author of the Analysis of the Human Mind. But little more than this was known, at least in this country. All agreed that Mill's intellectual training had been exceedingly thorough; but what the master's methods and tools were, had not been told. Indeed, some could hardly think of the author of the Logic and the Examination of Hamilton's Philosophy as having had a history or training at all. Until he emerged from his retirement toward the close of his life, he was little more than a name: mx, et preterm m'kil. The correspondent quoted above, thus describes his own early conceptions of the great philosopher We did not suppose he had any actual flesh-and-blood exist ence. He was a mere impersonation of logic and political economy, who was supposed to be incessantly secreting syllogisms in some philosophical laboratory. The Memorial volume added to our knowledge of Mr. Mill's later life, but threw no new light on his early training. Mr. Bourne, author of the principal sketch, told over again what we knew before. He said, James Mill was living in a house at Pentonville when his son was born; and, partly because of the peculiar abilities that the boy displayed from the first, partly because he could not afford to procure for him elsewhere such teaching as he was himself able to give him, he took his education entirely into his own hands. And here the matter rested, leaving us in as much darkness as ever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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