Simon Evans on JS Mill
Great Lives
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The Importance of Utilitarianism
His father was a friend and acolyte of Jeremy Bentham, who's the famously mummified philosopher in University College, London. They believed that if you removed all the distractions from a boy and just taught them the classics they could create a sort of superchild. So he says that by the time he was about seventeen, he felt he'd had this very, very, very compressed education in just so many things.
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