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Excerpt from A Reply to John Stuart Mill: On the Subjection of Women The questions discussed in the following pages, though they have engaged attention for a number of years, - having arisen chiefly in connection with projected social and political reforms, especially that popularly known as Woman's Rights, - might never have elicited this public expression as to their merits were it not certain that the recently-published essay of Mr. Mill will create a strong public sentiment in favor of the reform therein advocated, while the consequences which must necessarily follow may be but ill considered, or, perhaps, never once thought of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

John Stuart Mill's Liberty has outlived most of his other writings and is still relevant to students of politics and philosophy. It provides a source of problems for any would-be liberal political philosophy. Issues concerning the relation between the individual citizen and the state come into focus - e.g. questions about censorship, marital law or religious toleration.