A System of Logic, Rationative and Inductive (1843)

Mill, J.S., System of Logic, Rationative and Inductive, in Robson ed., The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill,  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963-.

Excerpt: This book makes no pretence of giving to the world a new theory of the intellectual operations. Its claim to attention, if it possess any, is grounded on the fact that it is an attempt not to supersede, but to embody and systematize, the best ideas which have been either… More

Principles of Political Economy (1848)

Mill, J.S., Principles of Political Economy, in Robson ed., The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill,  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963-.

Excerpt: It appears to the present writer, that a work similar in its object and general conception to that of Adam Smith, but adapted to the more extended knowledge and improved ideas of the present age, is the kind of contribution which Political Economy at present requires. The… More

On Liberty (1859)

Mill, J. S. On Liberty. In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–.

Excerpt: The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A… More

Utilitarianism (1861)

Mill, J. S. Utilitarianism. In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–.

Excerpt: There are few circumstances among those which make up the present condition of human knowledge, more unlike what might have been expected, or more significant of the backward state in which speculation on the most important subjects still lingers, than the little progress which… More

Considerations on Representative Government (1861)

Mill, J. S. Considerations on Representative Government. In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–.

Excerpt: 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… More

The Subjection of Women (1869)

ill, J. S. The Subjection of Women. In The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, edited by John M. Robson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963–.

Excerpt: The object of this essay is to explain as clearly as I am able, the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters, and which, instead of being weakened or modified, has been constantly… More

Autobiography (1873)

Mill, J.S., Autobiography, in Robson ed., The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill,  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963-.

Excerpt: I have no remembrance of the time when I began to learn Greek. I have been told that it was when I was three years old. My earliest recollection on the subject, is that of committing to memory what my father termed Vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their… More