Dissertations and Discussions, Volume I

Mill's own account of his life: Greek at three, a mental crisis at twenty eased by Wordsworth's poetry, and his partnership with Harriet Taylor. One of the great intellectual memoirs.

John Stuart Mill

Mill's 1867 speech on what a university should teach: classics and science together, plus the moral and aesthetic education that makes a complete person. A clear case for a broad liberal education.

John Stuart Mill