Essays by John Stuart Mill

England's greatest nineteenth-century philosopher, John Stuart Mill, authored two essays that are the fruit of six hundred years of progressive thought about individual rights and the responsibilities of society. Together, they provide the moral and theoretical justification for liberal democracy as we know it, and their incalculable influence on modern history testifies not only to the force of their arguments, but also to the power ideas can have over human affairs.

From the Hardcover edition.