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John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty (1859)

Sesquicentennial of the Publication of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859)

(1859) is regarded as one of the key defences of individual liberty and classical liberal political thought of this period.

[For further reading see 19th Century Utilitarians and the Classical School of Economics]

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