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Robson, Introduction by Stefan Collini (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1984). Author: John Stuart Mill Author: Harriet Taylor Editor: John M. Robson Introduction: Stefan Collini About This Title: Vol. 21 of the 33 vol. Collected Works contains a number of Mill’s essays on the law, women and children, the American Civil War, and his book on The Subjection of Women. It also contains in the Appendix Harriet Taylor’s works On Marriage and the Enfranchisement of Women. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 2 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education About Liberty Fund: Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. Copyright Information: The online edition of the Collected Works is published under licence from the copyright holder, The University of Toronto Press. ©2006 The University of Toronto Press. All rights reserved. No part of this material may be reproduced in any form or medium without the permission of The University of Toronto Press. Fair Use Statement: This material is put online to further the educational goals of Liberty Fund, Inc. Unless otherwise stated in the Copyright Information section above, this material may be used freely for educational and academic purposes. It may not be used in any way for profit. PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 3 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education Table Of Contents Introduction Textual Introduction Acknowledgments Essays On Equality, Law and Education Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press 1825 On Marriage 1832–33? Austin’s Lectures On Jurisprudence 1832 Reform In Education 1834 On Punishment 1834 Smith On Law Reform 1841 The Negro Question 1850 Statement On Marriage 1851 Remarks On Mr. Fitzroy’s Bill For the More Effectual Prevention of Assaults On Women and Children 1853 A Few Words On Non-intervention 1859 The Contest In America 1862 The Slave Power 1862 Austin On Jurisprudence 1863 Educational Endowments 1866 Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews 1867 The Subjection of Women 1869 Editor’s Note Chapter I Chapter Ii Chapter Iii Chapter Iv Treaty Obligations 1870 The Contagious Diseases Acts 1871 Appendices Appendix A: Harriet Taylor, On Marriage (1832-1833?) Appendix B: Harriet Taylor Mill, Papers On Women’s Rights (1847-1850?) 1.: Rights of Women—and Especially With Regard to the Elective Franchise—by a Woman—dedicated to Queen Victoria 2.: Women—(rights Of) 3.: The Rights of Women to the Elective Franchise and Its Advantages 4.: Why Women Are Entitled to the Suffrage 5.: [reform: Ends and Means] Appendix C: Harriet Taylor Mill, Enfranchisement of Women (1851) Appendix D: Draft of a Portion of the Inaugural Address (1866) Appendix E: Jamaica Committee: Public Documents (1866, 1868) Appendix F: Textual Emendations Appendix G: Bibliographical Index of Persons and Works Cited, With Variants and Notes PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 4 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education The Collected Edition of the works of John Stuart Mill has been planned and is being directed by an editorial committee appointed from the Faculty of Arts and Science of the University of Toronto, and from the University of Toronto Press. The primary aim of the edition is to present fully collated texts of those works which exist in a number of versions, both printed and manuscript, and to provide accurate texts of works previously unpublished or which have become relatively inaccessible. Editorial Committee j. m. robson,General Editor harald bohne, alexander brady, j. c. cairns, j. b. conacher, d. p. dryer, francess halpenny, samuel hollander, jean houston, marsh jeanneret, r. f. mcrae, f. e. l. priestley, francis e. sparshott PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 5 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education [Back to Table of Contents] Introduction STEFAN COLLINI any volume of occasional writings, especially those of an author who, according to his own unapologetic testimony, had, and never hesitated to express, strong views on “most of the subjects interesting to mankind,”1 is bound to appear diverse in character, and no attempt will here be made to hide or apologize for this diversity. Indeed, part of the value of a collected edition lies precisely in the reminder it provides to later and more specialized ages of the range and interconnectedness of a major writer’s concerns. But in the present case the appearance of the contents-page may actually exaggerate the heterogeneity of the material in this volume. One way to counteract this judgment is to observe the thematic overlapping of the subject-matter. Even with an author whose intellectual ambitions were less systematic than Mill’s, writings on the topics of equality and law could hardly be remote from each other, and in Mill’s case, furthermore, his whole theory of social and moral improvement was in one obvious sense educational, so that his views on particular educational ideals and institutions can, without strain, be seen as further corollaries of those same basic principles which underlie his other writings, including those on equality and law. But even if one considers the categories in isolation for a moment, the list of contents may still convey a misleading impression of how the items are distributed among them, considered purely quantitatively, more than half the volume falls primarily under the heading of “equality”; “law” accounts for just over one quarter, and “education” for a little under a fifth. The most important concentration of all, however, is chronological, despite the fact that the earliest piece reproduced here was published forty-six years before the last. For in fact, about three-quarters of the volume is occupied by material published in the thirteen years between 1859 and 1871. This period, of course, marked the very peak of Mill’s reputation and influence as a public figure, and he very deliberately set about exploiting his recently established authority to promote his particular social and political views as they related to the leading public issues of the day, utilizing all those means of addressing the relevant audiences which become available to an established public figure—pamphlets and manifestos as well as books, formal lectures as well as testimony to Royal Commissions, and, above all, articles, reviews, and letters in the periodical press. The essays in this volume are largely the fruit of this activity. Readers of this edition need hardly be told that some phases of Mill’s career and aspects of his writing have been subjected to intensive, or at least repeated, study and are now comparatively familiar. Works expounding and criticizing his major theoretical writings in philosophy, politics, and economics exist in industrial quantities, and of course the earlier stages of his intellectual development have come to constitute one of the best-known identity crises in history. But neither his less extended mature writings nor the final, and in some ways quite distinct, phase of his career have received anything like such close attention; therefore, as a preliminary to a more detailed discussion of the individual pieces reprinted in this volume, it may be helpful to consider in a fairly general way Mill’s performance in the role of public PLL v6.0 (generated September, 2011) 6 http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/255 Online Library of Liberty: The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, Volume XXI - Essays on Equality, Law, and Education moralist, and to try to place him in that world of High-Victorian polemical and periodical writing to which he was such a notable contributor.