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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
1859
Batoche Books
Kitchener
2001
Batoche Books Limited
52 Eby Street South
Kitchener, Ontario
N2G 3L1
Canada
email: batoche@gto.net
Contents
Chapter 1: Introductory ...................................................................... 6
Chapter 2: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion. .................... 18
Chapter 3: Of Individuality, as one of the Elements of Well-being. . 52
Chapter 4: Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual. ........................................................................................ 69
Chapter 5: Applications. .................................................................. 86
Notes .............................................................................................. 106
Dedication
The grand, leading principle, towards which every argument unfolded
in these pages directly converges, is the absolute and essential importance of human development in its richest diversity.
Wilhelm von Humboldt: Sphere and Duties of Government.
To the beloved and deplored memory of her who was the inspirer, and in
part the author, of all that is best in my writings- the friend and wife
whose exalted sense of truth and right was my strongest incitement, and
whose approbation was my chief reward—I dedicate this volume. Like
all that I have written for many years, it belongs as much to her as to
me; but the work as it stands has had, in a very insufficient degree, the
inestimable advantage of her revision; some of the most important portions having been reserved for a more careful re-examination, which
they are now never destined to receive. Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are
buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it,
than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted
and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom....