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Life of John Stuart Mill, chapter vi. (Walter Scott.)

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Note 2

Autobiography, p. 190.

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Note 3

Ibid., p. 242.

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Note 4

Autobiography, pp. 246, 247.

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Note 5

Cf. an instructive page in the Autobiography, p. 252.

Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

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These words had scarcely been written, when, as if to give them an emphatic contradiction, occurred the Government Press Prosecutions of 1858. That ill-judged interference with the…

Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

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Thomas Pooley, Bodmin Assizes, July 31, 1857. In December following, he received a free pardon from the Crown.

Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

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George Jacob Holyoake, August 17, 1857; Edward Truelove, July, 1857.

Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

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Baron de Gleichen, Marlborough-Street Police Court, August 4, 1857.

Chapter II · OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.

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Ample warning may be drawn from the large infusion of the passions of a persecutor, which mingled with the general display of the worst parts of our national character on the occas…

Chapter III · OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING.

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The Sphere and Duties of Government, from the German of Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, pp. 11-13.

Chapter III · OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING.

Note 12

Sterling's Essays.

Chapter III · OF INDIVIDUALITY, AS ONE OF THE ELEMENTS OF WELL-BEING.

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There is something both contemptible and frightful in the sort of evidence on which, of late years, any person can be judicially declared unfit for the management of his affairs; a…

Chapter IV · OF THE LIMITS TO THE AUTHORITY OF SOCIETY OVER THE INDIVIDUAL.

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The case of the Bombay Parsees is a curious instance in point. When this industrious and enterprising tribe, the descendants of the Persian fire-worshippers, flying from their nati…