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XXIII. CASES RATED AT AI IQ 190 to 200 · Genetic Studies of Genius: The Early Mental Traits of Three Hundred Geniuses

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Section thirty six of Genetic Studies of Genius, Volume two, The Early Mental
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Traits of three hundred Geniuses by Katharine Cox. This is a LibriVox according all
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Libervox accordings in the public domain. For more informational volunteer please visit the Brovox
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do orgue recorded by Leon Ivy, Chapter twenty three cases read at AIQ Onedre
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ninety to two hundred. John Stuart Mill eighteen o six to eighteen seventy three
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a celebrated English philosophical writer, lordgician, and economist AIQ on hundred ninety AIQ
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one hundred seventy one family standing. Mill's paternal grandfather was a shoemaker. His
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father, James Mill, the utilitarian philosopher author of a standard history of India
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in addition to philosophical works, was for seventeen years a member of the East
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India House and for the LAS six of these chief Examiner. Mill's mother was
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the daughter of a widow who managed a lunatic asylum started by her husband.
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James Mill seems to have looked down upon his wife two development wage seventeen one
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interests. John Stuart Mill had no childhood. His interests and his activities were
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mature from the first. In his early years, he was not allowed to
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associate with the children of his own age because his attention was directed exclusively to
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abstractions. He was inattentive and unobservant in matters of daily life. Brought up
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an agnostic and a questioner, his one concern was always the search for fundamental
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truth. At fifteen, on reading the works of Bentham, Mill reached a
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turning point in his intellectual life. The rational Materialists. Became at that time
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an outspoken champion of democracy and a determined reformer of existing world conditions. Two
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Education. Until he was fourteen, Mill was educated at home by his father.
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He began to learn Greek of three and from then to his ninth theory,
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he studied Greek classics, making daily reports of his reading. At the
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same time, under his father's direction, he read innumerable historical works. At
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seven, he read Plato. At eight he began the study of Latin before
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at the end of the year he was busily reading the classical Latin writers.
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He did not neglect mathematics at his course included geometry in algebra at nine,
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conic sections, SPHERICX and nutants, arithmetic were added. In the latter.
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He performed all the problems without the book, and most of them without any
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help from the book. At ten and eleven, both mathematical and classical studies
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were continued. Astronomy and mechanical philosophy were also included. Influctions began. At
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eleven. Mill was slightly soft taught one part of his course, the writing
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of English verse, he heartily disliked. At the age of twelve, philosophy
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and logic, including argumentation, became important parts of the program. Daily debate
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with his father, who taught him above all things, who accept no opinion
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unchallenged, was a most stimulating exercise. A thirteen, a complete course in
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political economy was undertaken, with intensive supplementary reading. Young Mill attended also a
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course of lecturers on chemistry at the Royal Military College. In spite of the
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wide variety of subjects in the early age at which he started to study them,
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mills education was not one of Graham. Complete understanding was made to proceed,
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or at least to accompany every forward step. Self conceit of a sort
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was guarded against, for the boy never heard himself praised. Moreover, he
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had won with whom to compare himself except his father, and this comparison was
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always humbling to his own pretensions. His father's frequent request for the definition of
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words used accentuated young Mill's sense of ignorance. At fourteen, John visited France
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as a guest of General Sir Samuel Bentham, and their spending stays as study,
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reading, driving, sightseeing, swimming, in learning to see, dance,
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fence and ride, and occasionally in collecting plants and insects. The plan
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of study was both intensive and extensive, including as it did, continuation of
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the studies already begun, as well as vast amounts of reading, especially in
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French literature. Nine hours were daily devoted to hard intellectual labor requiring intensive application.
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On the recommendation of the Benthams and of a distinguished French chemist, Mill
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was allowed to remain in France through the winter to attend lecturers at Montpellier University.
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These included chemistry, zoology, metaphysics, and logic mathematics. It continued
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under a private tutor. The most important result of Mill's study in France was
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his sympathetic acquaintance which he gained there with French modes of thought and action.
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The following years his sixteenth and seventeenth were spent at home in the study of
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philosophy, history, psychology, and in literary composition. At sixteen, Mil
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began the study of law with John Austen. Three schools standing in progress c.
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Two two four. Friends and associates. Until Mill was fourteen, his
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associates were the members of his family, chiefly his father and his father's friends.
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He was treated as an intellectual equal by men of fiability and entertainment.
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Even in his early years in France, he was associated with the distinguished family
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of General Bentham and their friends. On his return he was much with Grout
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and John Austen, both of whom influenced him profoundly. At sixteen Mill became
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equainted with Charles Austen, the first real friend, who was almost a contemporary.
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When a visit to Cambridge at sixteen, Mill made an unusual impression upon
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a number of undergraduates by his great conversational power, although the students he met
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were acquainted with Macaulay and Austin five reading, Mill read Greek and history from
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his fourth year onward Platow at seven Thusidides an Acrian, Sophocles Ruppides, Demosthenes,
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Aristophanes and Cicero at eight, the Odyssey, Theocritus, Pindar, Ashines
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and Livy at nine, and progressively more difficult classical writers from ten onwood Keel's
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astronomy and Robertson's mechanical philosophy. His special delight universal history and English literature,
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especially Shakespeare, Dryden and Scott. Scientific treatises in chemistry and physics were special
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favorites. At fourteen. The French writers made up a large share of the
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reading program. At fifteen and sixteen the works of Contilac, Dumont, Bentham,
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Dackstone, look Belvidius and the Scottish philosophers were added als where History,
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the French Revolution, and an analysis of the influence of natural religion. The
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careful study to which many of these books were subjected is indicated by close marginal
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notes. Six. Production achievement. A History of Rome, written at six
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and a half is an extraordinary production for so young. A lad Letters written
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at age a show an excellence style and precocious interests. A synoptic table of
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Aristotle's rhetoric was made by Mill at eleven, and during the same year he
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prepared a number of histories, verses, and metrical translations. Before he was
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twelve, he had begun to assist his father at correcting the proof of the
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history of India. From twelve to fourteen he prepared notes from his father's discourses
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to him doing their walks together, and these became the base of James Mill's
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Elements of political Economy. At thirteen and fourteen, John made a complete analysis
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of some of the orations of Demosthenes. At fifteen and sixteen he instructed his
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younger brother and sisters in the subjects his father had taught him. At sixteen
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he wrote his first argument of essay, and this was followed by a number
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of others on various topics. Two letters in defense of his father's economic views
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were printed before their author was seventeen, in The Traveler, a newspaper owned
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by an opponent and edited by a friend of James Mill. With the support
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of a group of young men of ability and independent thought, Young Mill organized
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before he was eighteen the Utilitarian Society. He was even then the leader of
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the group, and from that time he had a considerable influence on their mental
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progress. Seven Evidences of precocity CE two two and five. At the age
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of five, Mill discussed the comparative merits of Marlborough and Wellington with the Lady
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Spencer, the wife of the first Lord of the Admiralty. The boy's distinctive
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ability was early recognized by critical observers, and writing of him at fourteen,
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his father's friend Baines sums up his achievement as follows. If I were to
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compare him with the most intellectual youth that I have ever known, or heard
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or made of, I should say that his attainments on the whole are not
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unparalleled, though I admit very rare. His classical knowledge, such as it
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is, might be forced upon a clever youth of that age. The mathematics
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could not be so easily commanded. But the one thing, in my judgment
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where a Mill was most markedly in advance of his use was logic. It
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was not merely that he had read Truces or former logic as well as Rob's
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Computatio ziph Logica, but that he was able to chop logic with his father.
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In regard to the foundations and demonstrations of geometry, I have never known
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a similar case of precocity. We must remember, however, that while his
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father could not be expected to teach him everything, yet in point of fact,
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there were a few things that he could and did teach effectively. One
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of these was logic. The others were political economy, historical philosophy, and
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politics, all of which were eminently his own subjects. On these, John
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was a truly precocious youth. His innate aptitudes, which must have been great,
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received the utmost stimulation that it was possible to apply ai Q under ninety
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relative coach of Ditte point eight two three development from seventeen to twenty six.
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At seventeen, Mil entered the service of the East India Company, with whom
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he remained till he was fifty two. Doing his first year serves, he
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made many journalistic contributions, and the following year he wrote for the newly found
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of Westminster Review, his articles being chiefly book reviews on history, politics or
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political economy, or discussions on special political topics. His friendship with Roebuck began
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at this time and iterny commenced Editing Bentham's work on evidence, enormous labour entertained
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not only selection and revision of the author's material, but the additional suitable supplementary
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discussions from other writers. In this year Mills started the Parliamentary History and Review
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Untended Debates and Readings, the latter field of activity covering the works of his
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father, Riccardo and Hobbes. In the following year he continued his debates and
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readings and his book reviews for The Westminster. At this time, the First
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Science appeared of an approaching mental crisis. He fell into a state of nervous
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depression, during which he felt that his tasks were carried on quite mechanically.
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At twenty his outward life followed the same courts, debates, reviews, readings
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and discussions the subject logic. At twenty two appeared his last article for The
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Westminster, one on Scott's Life of Napoleon. He was promoted assistant Examiner of
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the easter Near Company, and he commenced his friendship with Mardie and Sterling.
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During the next year, the subject of the discussions was analysis of the human
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mind. At twenty four, excited by the Revolution, Mill visited Paris and
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there became acquainted with the French philosophy of history. When his return to England,
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he prepared a series of articles on French politics which soon appeared in various
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reviews. He began to outline his ideas on the logical distinction between terms,
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a study which developed in the next year, Mill's twenty six to Logical Axioms
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and a Theory of Syllogisms. He continued his articles on the Spirit of the
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Age and published them in the Examiner. In this year he first met his
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future wife. Is noteworthy that Mill did not read Wordsworth until his twenty second
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year, and that he was then surprised to find that the poet belonged to
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him as well as to others. A I I Q hundred seventy relative couchetenna
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pointe two, end of section thirty six