John Stuart Millhead, John Miltonhead, or Both?

Is there any indication that John Stuart Mill had read John Milton's areaopagitica? It's certainly a lot of commentators draw the comparison between the two. And just as a funny little piece of trivia, Mill's family once lived in a house that belonged Milton. He believed that you've got to prepare people for the kind of liberty that people leave out to have.

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