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8. V. Life of Rœltuck, les extraite d'une autobiographie où Roebuck nous dit ce qu'était Stuart Mill lorsqu'il le connut en 1824. Il n'avait eu ni ami ni amie de son âge : « We, in fact, who were now bis associâtes (Graham et Roebucki, were tbc first companions he bad ever mixed with. His father took occasion to i-emark lo myself especially, tbat he had no great liking for his son's new friends. — In his childhood and youth he had no playfellow. He walked and talked with his father as if he had been a man receiving ail hy his head, his liearl not being coneerned in the matter. When at length nature asserted lier rights, he found himself upon a wild, wide, turbulent océan, wbithout a chart, almost without a eompass. But during ail this time he never doubted as to his own infallibility.