“Utilitarianism,” by John Stuart Mill
In his Autobiography, John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) depicts his extraordi-narily rigorous early education under his father James Mill, a member of the utilitarian circle known as the “Philosophical Radicals.” At the age of fourteen, he studied chemistry, zoology, logic, and higher mathematics with
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