John Stuart Mill: A Criticism with Personal Recollections

he hsd abandoned, it.
103(a)
The Liberty prynepred abort +he sp^e
time. The ^ork was conceived and Tinne
in 18*4. While thinking of it, he t old
G-rote that he **ps coeltptin/? *n essav to
T>oint ont what things soeietv ^orbpde
that it ought not, and whpt tMners it
left plone that it onrht to control.
Grcte reDepted t>is to me, reworHnp
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"It is pll very ell <"or John W111 to
stgnd UT> for the rewovpl o^ orip1
restraints, hnt PP. to i!rmoHn^ ne"" one,
I feel the greatest p-n-nrehe
instpntly divined wv^t f>ie new
wonld "be. The volume must hp-^e heen the
chief occHDptiort of hi^ srip.re time
the lpt t*"O vep-re of hi officipl
It is knon *hpt, he ee+ ffrep* cto^e hy
the w rk, ?md thonffht it ~rn}d
l?st longer thpn sny of M w^
-oerhp-ns the Lo^1 r. -
The old stfmdini* oTiest ion o^
of Thought h?^ heen *o^ed ITP, In
* striking >y emositi^ns, his
^ith Bent>ipn,
father, in conjtmctinn
the circle of the We.gt*Hngter P
himself, from his eprliest youth,
embarked in the spme cpuse, fn*
were inferior to none in the
freshness of the hpn^l^n/?.
of the Lihpytv;
The
1 s the cr>ndensptiAn
FTiptHhzTd been -orevioiisly done:
t^e ^resent, stands PS the cM e
book on Treedom o^ Discussion.
round P centrpl Idea -hich hps
^rowin^ -nrominence in later -^epnrmely,
the necessity of tpkinff accmmt
of the negative to everv -ooMM^e