Table of Contents
Nicholas Capaldi – Introduction
Zbigniew Janowski – Liberalism and the New Opium of the Intellectuals
Notes on the Text in the Present Edition
Chronology
I. On Progress, Education and Future
Perfectibility
The Spirit of the Age
Civilization
Utility of Knowledge
On Education
On Conservative and Liberal Poets
On Guizot’s Essays and Lectures on History
Guizot’s Lectures on European Civilization
On Social Stability
Liberal Society in the Future (Selections from Utilitarianism)
II. On Ideologies and Governments
Influence of Aristocracy
On Aristocracy: A Letter to John Austin
On Democracy
Essays on Government
On Religion
Chapters on Socialism
A Letter on “Contraints of Communism”
Considerations on Representative Government (Selections)
III. On Religion, Liberty, and Freedom of Speech
On Religious Persecution
Old and New Institutions
Early Letters on Free Discussion
On Church, Religion and State
Political Oaths
Morality: Private and Public
Law of Libel and Liberty of the Press
On Punishment
On Liberty
IV. On Women and Equality
On the Moral Value of Romance
On Marriage
Women in Parliament: A Letter to Richard Russell
Subjection of Women (Selections)
V. On America and Democracy
De Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
State of Society in America
Negro Question
The Contest in America
Letters
Conduct of the United States Towards the Indian Tribe
Appendix – Cardinal John Henry Newman: “Notice of Liberalism in Oxford” and 18 “Propositions”
Afterword by Ryszard Legutko – John Stuart Mill and Liberalism