约翰·穆勒是英国19世纪杰出的思想家,他在20岁的时候曾经患上典型的抑郁症,后来通过阅读马蒙特尔的回忆录和华兹华斯的诗集而成功地自行治愈,这件事彻底改变了他的人生观、幸福观,极大地丰富和深化了他对阅读的认识。该文介绍了约翰.穆勒人生当中的这个重要事件,阐述了他关于阅读的一系列观点。 John Mueller, a prominent 19th-century British thinker who had suffered typical depression at the age of 20 and later successfully healed by reading Marmont’s memoirs and Wordsworth’s poems, Completely changed his outlook on life, the concept of happiness, greatly enriched and deepened his understanding of reading. This article introduces this important event in John Mill’s life and elaborates on a series of his views on reading.