![]() It skips so much of this passage that the listener has no idea whatsoever what triggered his recovery and no specific reference is made to what it was again in the text. ![]() But one of them skips over Mill's description of what got him out of his depression, which is probably the most important biographical moment in the entire book. There are a few little elisions that skip over small amounts of the text, which for the most part are forgivable little annoyances. ![]() It is amazing to me that this wasn't proofed properly. (It was worth it, because the accounts of this episode I had encountered elsewhere turn out to be wrong in their detail!) Anyway, I hope this inexcusable lacuna in the recording is amended in a revised edition published as soon as possible. Right at the climax of the autobiography, where Mill is in a suicidal depression, and a chance encounter with a particular book breaks through his despair, the recording skips a chunk of text, and we hear nothing about the actual turnaround! WTAF!! I resorted to the free text at the wonderful (though, to me, ideologically quite uncongenial) online Library of Liberty to figure out what had happened. (Let it be said that I am a huge admirer of John Stuart Mill and unusually historically knowledgeable, and so likely to be more inclined toward the book than most.) Like all of his mature work, this book is, without being in the least pretentious or vain, a virtuoso exhibition of intelligence and sympathy of the highest degree. I have been listening to this autobiography with intense pleasure. ![]()
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