UNIFORM LIBRARY EDITION OF THE MISCELLANEOUS WORKS OF JOHN STUART MILL. Tinted and laid paper, 8vo, $2.50 per vol. (except vol. on Comte.) Three Essays on Religion. 1 vol. The Autobiography. 1 vol. Dissertations and Discussions. 4 vols. Considerations on Representative Government. 1 vol. Examination of Sir William-Hamilton's Philosophy. *2 vols. URAVHA On Liberty; The Subjection of Women. Both in 1 vol. -Comte's Positive Philosophy. 1 vol. $1.50. CHEAP EDITIONS. Principles of Political Economy. 12mo, $2.50. The Subjection of Women. 12mo, plain, $1.25. John Stuart Mill: His Life and Works. Twelve sketches, as follows: His Life, by J. R. Fox Bourne; His Career in the India House, by W. T. Thornton: His Moral Character, by Herbert Spencer; His Botanical Studies, by Henry Turner; His Place as a Critic, by W. Minto; His Work in Philosophy, by J. H. Levy: His Studies in Morals and Jurisprudence, by W. A. Hunter; His Work in Political Economy, by J. E. Cairues; His Influence at the Universitics, by Henry Fawcett; His Influence as a Practical Politician, by Mrs. Fawcett; His Relation to Positism, by Frederic Harrison; His Position as a Philosopher, by W. A. Hunter. 16mo, price, $1.00. HENRY HOLT & CO., Publishers, N. Y. PREFACE. THOSE who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and exhibiting them in their connection, and also, I believe, in much that is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions, at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) have lost confidence in the political creeds which they nominally profess, while neither side appears to have made any progress in providing itself with a better. Yet such a better doctrine must be possible; not a mere compromise, by splitting the difference between the two, but something wider than either, which, in virtue of its superior comprehensive ness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing any thing which he really feels to be valuable in his own creed. When so many feel obscurely the want of such a doctrine, and so few even flatter themselves that they have attained it, any one may, without presumption, offer what his own thoughts, and the best that he knows of those of others, are able to contribute toward its formation. |