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On Liberty
On Liberty
by
John Stuart Mill
W
Wisehouse Classics
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
First published in 1859.

The text for this edition derived from the “Harvard Classics” Volume 25, published in

1909 by P. F. Collier & Son
Cover photo: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873) with Helen Taylor.
January 01, 1860 - London Stereoscopic Company
Executive Editor
Sam Vaseghi

Published by Wisehouse Classics – Sweden
ISBN 978-91-7637-152-7
Wisehouse Classics is a Wisehouse Imprint.
© Wisehouse 2016 – Sweden
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Contents
Introductory
Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
On Individuality, as one of the elements of Wellbeing
Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
Applications
Notes
Introductory
T
HE SUBJECT OF THIS
ESSAY IS NOT THE SO-CALLED
LIBERTY OF THE
WILL, SO
unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment.
The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subjects, or some classes of subjects, and the government. By liberty, was meant protection against the tyranny of the political rulers. The rulers were conceived (except in some of the popular governments of Greece) as in a necessarily antagonistic position to the people whom they ruled. They consisted of a governing One, or a governing tribe or cast ............

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