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Often appears with: marriage and betrothal · justice as a virtue · education and the training of the young · education · early character formation
Usually: argument (1) · coming of age (1) · detachment (1)
Mill begins a section on moral influences in early youth, stating he will not detail everything but will give leading points essential for understanding how his early character formed.
MORAL INFLUENCES IN EARLY YOUTH. MY FATHER'S CHARACTER AND OPINIONS In my education, as in that of everyone, the moral influences, which are so much more important than all others, are also the most complicated, and the most difficult to specify with any approach to completeness. Without attempting the hopeless task of detailing the circumstances by which, in this respect, my early character may have been shaped, I …