Tirohia te wāhanga i raro nei, kātahi ka whakautu i te pātai i muri mai i te reo kotahi me te wāhanga:  Passage: I whanau a James Milne, i muri mai ko James Mill, i Northwater Bridge, i te parakihi o Logie Pert, Angus, Scotland, te tama a James Milne, he kaihanga hu me te kaiahuwhenua iti. Ko tana whaea, ko Isabel Fenton, no tetahi whanau i raru i te hononga ki te whakaoho a Stuart, i whakatau kia whiwhi ia i te maatauranga tuatahi, ka tukuna ia ki te kura parakihi ka haere ki te Montrose Academy, i reira ia i noho ai tae noa ki te tau tekau ma whitu me te hawhe. Katahi ia ka uru ki te Whare Wananga o Edinburgh, i reira ia i wehewehe ai ia ano hei akonga Kariki. I te Oketopa 1789, i whakatapua ia hei minita mo te Hahi o Scotland, engari kaore i tino angitu. E ai ki te Autobiography a John Stuart Mill, ahakoa "i whakaakona tona papa i roto i te whakapono o te Scottish Presbyterianism, na ona ake akoranga me nga whakaaro i arahi wawe ai ia ki te whakakahore ehara i te whakapono ki te Whakakitenga anake, engari ko nga turanga o te mea e kiia nei ko te Reo Māori". Mai i te 1790 ki te 1802, i tua atu i te pupuri i nga momo whakaakoranga, i whakapau kaha ia ki nga akoranga hitori me te rapunga whakaaro. I te kitenga i te iti o te mahi i Scotland, i te tau 1802 ka haere ia ki Rānana, Ingarangi, i te taha o Sir John Stuart o Fettercairn, ko te mema o te paremata mo Kincardineshire, a ka whakatapua ia ki te mahi tuhituhi. Mai i te 1803 ki te 1806, ko ia te kaiwhakatika o te pukapuka nui e kiia ana ko te Journal Literary, e kii ana ki te whakaatu i te tirohanga whakarāpopoto o nga tari katoa o te matauranga o te tangata. I tenei wa ka whakatikahia e ia te St James's Chronicle, no te rangatira kotahi. I te tau 1804, i tuhia e ia he pukapuka mo te tauhokohoko witi, e tohe ana ki te utu mo te kaweake witi. I te tau 1805, i whakaputaina e ia he whakamaoritanga (me nga korero me nga whakahua) o An Essay on the Spirit and Influence of the Reformation of Luther, he mahi a C.F. Villers mo te Whakahoutanga, he whakaeke ki nga kino e kiia ana o te punaha papal. I te mutunga o tēnei tau ka tīmata ia ki tana The History of British India, i tangohia e ia tekau ma rua tau ki te whakaoti, hei utu mo te toru, e wha ranei, i rite ki...  Pātai: He aha te ingoa o te ingoa whānau o James Milne?
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