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John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works

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This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of…

Autobiography

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John Stuart Mill


John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influe…

On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill


"On Liberty," a seminal work by philosopher John Stuart Mill. Mill felt there were no definite standards for defining what societ…

Utilitarianism

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John Stuart Mill


John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. Th…

On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill


Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy

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John Stuart Mill


This is Mill’s first work on economics. It foreshadows his Political Economy which was the standard Anglo-American Economics textbook of the…

A System of Logic

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John Stuart Mill


"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

Three Essays on Religion

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John Stuart Mill


The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature'…

The Mill Mystery

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Anna Katharine Green


In the quiet New England village of S--, a young and beloved minister is found dead, ignominiously drowned in a dye vat in a dilapidated mil…

The Subjection of Women

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The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, st…

Hume's Central Principles

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Peter Millican


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

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George Eliot


The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

Considerations on Representative Government

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John Stuart Mill


Mill's volume was published in 1861 as an argument favoring this form of governance. Mill covers what forms of government work best, includi…

The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1

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Robert Henry Newell


These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…

Abraham Lincoln: The Practical Mystic

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Francis Grierson


A knowledge of the influences which ruled the life of Lincoln, the greatest of practical mystics, is essential now that a new form of pagani…

The Mill on the Floss

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George Eliot


The novel details the lives of Tom and Maggie Tulliver, a brother and sister growing up on the river Floss near the village of St. Oggs, evi…

Seed Thoughts

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Joseph Caryl


There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…

Robert Falconer

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George MacDonald


A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

As in a Mirror

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Pansy


A wealthy and successful author, John Stuart King is preparing to write his next book, which includes a homeless tramp. He has done all the …

Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects

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John Newton


Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…

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