...ations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...rious indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...it is sometimes quite as near; and in any case it ought to be respectfully listened to, in stead of being, as it is, not merely turned away from, but... ...atural accompaniment of any, even nominal, repre sentation. In the modern kingdom of Greece, for example, it can hardly be doubted, that the place hu... ...s a majority in others, and on the whole every opinion which exists in the constituencies obtains its fair share of voices in the representation. And ... ...her portion of the British dominions. The only remaining real grievance of Ireland, that of the State Church, is one which half, or nearly half the pe...

...Preface: Those who have done me the honor of reading my previous writings will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume; for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the p...

....................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter I To What Extent Forms of Government are a Matter of Choice ............................................................. 5 Chapter II The Criterion of a Good Form of Government .........................................................................

...AUTOBIOGRAPHY A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION of John Stuart Mill Autobiography by John Stuart Mill is a publication of... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ect, is that of committing to memory what my father termed vocables, being lists of common Greek words, with their signification in English, which he ... ...ct and energy of character—was induced partly by that influence to go into Parliament, and there adopt the line of conduct which has given him an hono... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...urpose) urging the for mation of peasant properties on the waste lands of Ireland. This was during the period of the Famine, the winter of 1846 47, ... ...se opinions, and especially the response made from almost all parts of the kingdom to the demand for women’s suffrage, fully justified the timeliness ... ...f the very imperfect substitute for that plan, which, in a small number of constituencies, Par liament was induced to adopt. This poor makeshift had ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a ...