Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873 / 2008-09-29 00:00:00

EBOOK, CONSIDERATIONS ON REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT ***


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CONSIDERATIONS
ON
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT
BY
JOHN STUART MILL,
AUTHOR OF
"A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVE"

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 practical
suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is
novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and
exhibiting them in their connection, and also, I believe, in much that
is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all
events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with
general acceptance as if they were.
It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more
than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both
Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they
still call themselves) have lost confidence in the political creeds
which they nominally profess, while neither side appears to have made
any progress in providing itself with a better.
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