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8. V. Life of Roebuck, les extraits 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 his associates (Graham et Roebuck), were the first companions 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. — [n his childhood and youth he had no playfellow. He walked and talked with his father as if he had been a man receiving all by his head, his heart not being concerned in the matter. When at length nature asserted her rights, he found himself upon a wild, wide, turbulent ocean, whithout a chart, almost without a compass. But during all this time he never doubted as to his own infallibility.