He was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannize over a minority, and his warning against it has a contemporary ring" (PMM 345). Through works such as On Liberty (1859), Considerations on Government (1861) and Subjection of Women (1869), "many of Mill's ideas are now the commonplace of democracy, His arguments for freedom of speech have never been improved on. "Few lives have been more closely scrutinized than that of John Stuart Mill" (ODNB). Octavo, original pebbled green cloth.įirst edition, first issue, of Mill's "pioneering" autobiography, primarily written in the 1850s and "revised at the time of writing" by his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, issued posthumously the same year as his death, a splendid copy in original cloth. London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1873. "MANY OF MILL'S IDEAS ARE NOW THE COMMONPLACE OF DEMOCRACY"
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