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Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 1
The whole foundation on which my life was constructed fell down.
Chapter V
John Stuart
Mill

Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 1

Autobiography Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 1

John Stuart Mill

Published posthumously, this honest and heart-felt account of the education of the great interdisciplinary thinker of the nineteenth century describes the conflict between Mill’s intellect and soul that would result in periodic psychic breakdowns and ground-breaking philosophy.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

Introductory Note

  1. Childhood and Early Education
  2. Moral Influences in Early Youth. My Father’s Character and Opinions
  3. Last Stage of Education and First of Self-Education
  4. Youthful Propagandism. The Westminster Review
  5. A Crisis in My Mental History. One Stage Onward
  6. Commencement of the Most Valuable Friendship of My Life. My Father’s Death. Writings and Other Proceedings up to 1840
  7. General View of the Remainder of My Life