Simon Evans on JS Mill
Great Lives
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Mill's Life and Work
The show originally came around through a memory that I had of my first Guinness Book of Records when I was nine years of age. And one record that I was always fascinated by was this sort of hyper-human intelligence, and there's a passage on it in the Guinness Book of records where it says 150 represents genius level. He did look very clever, didn't he? That just described the way he looks. It almost looks as if his brains are bulging out of his forehead. What is it you most admire about him? Is it his work, his thought, his writing? Or is it the life itself?
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