The Autobiography of John Stuart Mill
by John Stuart Mill
“He was bred to be a genius, but he fought to become a man.”
Witness the transformation of a child prodigy raised to be a logical machine into the world's leading champion of individual liberty. Mill’s candid account of his rigorous upbringing and subsequent mental crisis offers a rare, intimate look at the struggle to balance pure intellect with the human heart.
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