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Cover of Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill

Edited by John M. Robson

  • Published: 1981
  • DOI: 10.4324/9780415480581
  • Set ISBN: 9780415480581

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Essays on Equality, Law, and Education


Equality, as Stefan Collini asserts in the Introduction above, is the dominant theme in this volume. Perhaps because the word does not appear in the title of any of Mill’s great essays, its importance in his thought and life is not often emphasized. The materials now gathered, which demonstrate its significance in his thought on education and law as well as on sexual, racial, and domestic issues, derive from each of the decades of his writing career, that is, from the 1820s to the 1870s. They also cover a wide range in provenance. The majority, eleven of the eighteen in the text proper, originated as reviews or essays in periodicals: three in each of the Westminster Review and Fraser’s Magazine, two in the Monthly Repository, and one in each of Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Fortnightly Review. Of these eleven, three were reprinted during Mill’s lifetime in the British edition of Dissertations and Discussions, one (“Treaty Obligations”) was republished in the posthumous fourth volume, and one (“The Slave Power”) in the U.S. editions of that collection. Two of the items, the Inaugural Address at St. Andrews (originally a speech) and The Subjection of Women, appeared as books; and one, Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill, as a pamphlet. Parliamentary evidence, in written form and as a transcription of oral answers (republished in pamphlet form), supplies two further items. And two more not published by Mill are presented from manuscript. The appendices given to ancillary textual matter include essays and fragments by Harriet Taylor Mill, only one of which was published in her lifetime (in the Westminster), a manuscript fragment of the Inaugural Address, and three publications of the Jamaica Committee under Mill’s chairmanship.

Volume Contents

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    Front Matter
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    Introduction By Stefan Collini
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    Textual Introduction By John M. Robson
  • Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press 1825
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press
  • On Marriage 1832–33?
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      On Marriage
  • Austin’s Lectures on Jurisprudence 1832
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Austin’s Lectures on Jurisprudence
  • Reform In Education 1834
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Reform in Education
  • On Punishment 1834
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      On Punishment
  • Smith On Law Reform 1841
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Smith on Law Reform
  • The Negro Question 1850
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Negro Question
  • Statement On Marriage 1851
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Statement on Marriage
  • Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’S Bill For The More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women And Children 1853
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Remarks on Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill for the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults on Women and Children
  • A Few Words on Non-Intervention 1859
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      A Few Words on Non-Intervention
  • The Contest in America 1862
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Contest in America
  • The Slave Power 1862
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      The Slave Power
  • Austin on Jurisprudence 1863
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Austin on Jurisprudence
  • Educational Endowments 1866
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      Educational Endowments
  • Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews 1867
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews
  • The Subjection of Women 1869
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Chapter I
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      Chapter II
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      Chapter III
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      Chapter IV
  • Treaty Obligations 1870
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      Editor’s Note By John M. Robson
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      Treaty Obligations
  • The Contagious Diseases Acts 1871
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      The Contagious Diseases Acts
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    Back Matter