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John Stuart Mill was born in the Pentonville area of London on May 20, 1806. He was an influential liberal thinker in the 19th century. He was a British philosopher, political economist, civil servant, and a member of parliament. Mill grew up well educated by his father James Mill, who was also a philosopher and historian. Mill was also educated with the advise of Jeremy Bentham. He was given a strict and rigorous upbringing. He was immediately shielded from other children and robbed of his childhood. His father wanted him to carry on the cause of Unitarianism after himself and Bentham were dead.
At the age of three he was taught Greek, and by eight he had read Aesop’s Fables, and Xenophon’s Anabasis. He was also familiar with six other dialogues and six of Plato’s. Also at eight he began to learn Latin, Euclid, and algebra. He even read books that were commonly read at the universities at the time. Such as Homer, Horace, etc. By the time he was twelve he had studied the......

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