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Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 2
To individuality should belong the part of life in which it is chiefly the individual that is interested; to society, the part which chiefly interests society.
Chapter IV
John Stuart
Mill

Harvard Classics, Vol. 25, Part 2

On Liberty

John Stuart Mill

By far the most influential work of the greatest nineteenth-century English philosopher, this extended essay tempers his inheritance of utilitarianism with a humanism that would become the manifesto of modern democracy.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK: P.F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY, 1909–14
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2001

  1. Introductory
  2. Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion
  3. On Individuality, As One of the Elements of Wellbeing
  4. Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual
  5. Applications