FOOTNOTES:

[1] Life of John Stuart Mill, chapter vi. (Walter Scott.)

[2] Autobiography, p. 190.

[3] Ibid., p. 242.

[4] Autobiography, pp. 246, 247.

[5] Cf. an instructive page in the Autobiography, p. 252.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
PAGE
INTRODUCTORY[1]
CHAPTER II.
OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION[28]
CHAPTER III.
OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING[103]
CHAPTER IV.
OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL[140]
CHAPTER V.
APPLICATIONS[177]

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.


ON LIBERTY.