Autobiography, ]i

8. y. Life of Roi'Imck, les extraits d'une autobiographie où Roebuck nous dit ce qu'était Stuart Mill lorsqu'il le connut en 18M. 11 n'avait eu ni ami ni amie de son âge : « We, in fact, wlio were now liis associâtes (Grahani et Roebuck), were the first companions lie had ever mixed with. His falher took occasion to romark lo mvself especially, tbat lie had no great liking for his son's new tViends. — In his l'hildliood and youtli lie had no playfellow. He walked and talkcd with liis lafher as ifhe had been a man receiving ail by his Iiead, his heart not heing concnrned in the matter. When at length nature asserted lier rights, lie found hinisclf upon a wild, wide, turbulent océan, whithout a ciiart, almost without a compass. But during ail this tinie lie nevcr douiited as (d his uwn iiifallibility.