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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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John Stuart Mill
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(1806–73) Philosopher who wrote classic statements of 19C liberalism in such works as On Liberty (1859). His Autobiography (1873) describes the extraordinary education given him by his father. At three he started Greek, and by eight was reading Aesop, Xenophon, Herodotus and Plato in the original. At the age of 20 he experienced a spiritual crisis which convinced him that this rational approach disregarded the poetry in human beings – a change of emphasis prefiguring much in the Victorian age.
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