Autobiography of John Stuart Mill Author:John Stuart Mill, John Jacob Coss 1924. Published for the first time without alterations or omissions from the original transcript. Mill's autobiography shows the growth of a man in the midst of his age. It is the personal, though dispassionate, story of the conflict of an integrated spirit with the ideas and with the affairs of men. One sees an age, and one sees a man; both ma... more »n and age are so much a part of our own day that by knowing them we learn to know ourselves.« less