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Autobiography

by John Stuart Mill

Series: The World's Classics (no. 262)

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Info:	Houghton Mifflin Company (1969), Paperback, 410 pages
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Neat! System of logic stuff is boring. But the first half is pretty snappy.

leeinaustin | Apr 20, 2009 |

This book is so wonderful on so many different levels that to give it a review at all would be a disservice. My recommendation is not on whether or not to read it but instead on how to read it. I suggest a quiet room, comfortable chair or couch, cup of coffee and a few hours of uninterrupted reading time. After completing the book, rest and repeat as desired. (

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A classic memoir. The story of a life of the mind above all.

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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 life as mine.

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For now I saw, or thought I saw, what I had always before received with incredulity -- that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings; as indeed it has, when no other mental habit is cultivated, and the analyzing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives.

Of the truth of this I was convinced, but to know that a feeling would make me happy if I had it, did not give me the feeling.

Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end.

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Published for the first time without alterations or omissions from the original transcript. Mill's autobiography shows the growth of a man in the midst of his age. It is the personal, though dispassionate, story of the conflict of an integrated spirit with the ideas and with the affairs of men. One sees an age, and one sees a man; both man and age are so much a part of our own day that by knowing them we learn to know ourselves.

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