He is a British philosopher and economist. He was born in London in 1806 AD. He was the firstborn of a large family that gave birth to nine children. His father, James Mill, was one of the greatest scholars and knowledgeable people of the eighteenth century. He lived far from the influence of the new romantic trends, and Jeremy Bentham and the French philosophical materialists left a great impact on him. He raised his son, John Stuart, in isolation from the rest of the children, and he received a rational upbringing. John learned Greek in the fifth year of his life, where he read the works of Herodotus and Plato, and learned Latin at nine, and at twelve he studied Aristotle and Hobbes''s logic, and at thirteen he read Ricardo''s Principles. His intellectual nourishment was carefully directed by his father and a mixture of natural science and classical literature, and when John reached fourteen, he had as much knowledge and knowledge as a man of thirty. His father succeeded in making him a rational being equipped with extensive information
