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Initially the trip was to last six months. Mill enjoyed himself so thoroughly in this far more normal environment that he managed to find excuses to delay his return, and the trip ended up lasting fourteen months. During this time he succeeded in learning French, and developed a lifelong love of France, French culture, and politics. He also developed what would become a lifelong interest in botany. But most importantly, the Bentham household was filled with love and affection, a quality that one would not ascribe to James Mill’s.
Third, since we have no basis for beliefs of the form ‘A is caused by B,’ all we are entitled to believe is that there has been a correlation 18 MILL AND THE MODERN WORLD between A and B in the past, where event A seems to follow event B. But since we cannot justify our belief in causes, we cannot justify the belief that correlations we have seen in the past will justify the belief in causal relations that cause similar correlations in the future. This would be to rather viciously beg the question.
At this point he was over 45. Secondly, although James Mill considered himself a self-made man, he was dependent for much of his life on wealthy sponsors; first the Stuarts and later Jeremy Bentham. During the years of his marriage his family spent 36 MILL’S EDUCATION AND EARLY INFLUENCES a great deal of time in homes owned by the wealthy Bentham. Thirdly, James Mill was the product of a strict upbringing and a strenuous early education. He was a child prodigy, and as we shall see, so was Jeremy Bentham.