...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...ct and energy of character—was induced partly by that influence to go into Parliament, and there adopt the line of conduct which has given him an hono... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...urpose) urging the for mation of peasant properties on the waste lands of Ireland. This was during the period of the Famine, the winter of 1846 47, ... ...se opinions, and especially the response made from almost all parts of the kingdom to the demand for women’s suffrage, fully justified the timeliness ... ...f the very imperfect substitute for that plan, which, in a small number of constituencies, Par liament was induced to adopt. This poor makeshift had ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. 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 ...