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 the affairs of men,One sees an age,and one sees a man both the man and the age are so much a part of our own day that by knowing them we learn to knw ourselves,Of the works by Carlyle here printed,Characterstics is a condensed and telling statement of some of his most fudamental ideas:the essay on Sir Walter Scott exhibits