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8. V. Life ofRoebitck, les extraits d'une autobiographie où Roebuck nous dît ce qu'était Stuart Mill lorsqu'il le connut en 1824. Il n'avait eu ni ami ni amie de son âge : « We, in fa et, who were now his associâtes (Grahara et Roebuck), were the first compa nions he had ever mixed with.* His father took occasion to remark to myself especially, that 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 by bis head, his heart not being concerned in the matter. When at length nature asserted her rights, he found himself upon a wild, wide, turbulent océan, whithout a chart, almost without a compass. Rut during ail this time he never doubted as to his own infallibility.