| Show CHILD PRODIGY john a stuart mill was born bora in 1806 in london his father a writer of note in his orvn own jene generation ar was his teacher until he be entered the university aj As a boy he was known af as a child prodigy about which mill writes in his bis autobiography the britannica Britana Brit armica ica says that mill understates the amount of knowledge thai he be had at various ages in childhood and also understates the amount of study and reading that he had done about the age of twelve john began a thorough study of the scholastic logic at the same time reading 1 in the original the last bat jaari years of lils his life were spent lit in retirement in a little cottage where cheri he li had music books friends ali and 4 long loj walks in the via beauty of af the iiii countryside his stepdaughter was his bis companion and solace after the death of his wife miu mill lived until 1873 |
