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John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873)

Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, 33 vols.  Edited by J.M. Robson. Toronto University Press, Toronto 1963-1991. Online Library of Liberty. (CW)

” The Word Nature” 1823

  • “A letter in the Republican of [3 Jan., 1823,] on the word Nature” CW XII
  • Sana “luonto”. Suom. Tuusvuori. Niin & näin 1/01

”The Utility o f Knowledge” 1823

  • Speech on the Utility of Knowledge spoken at the Mutual Improvement Society in 1823. CW XXVI
  • Tiedon hyöty. Sana “luonto”. Suom. Tuusvuori. Niin & näin 1/01

Questions of Population. 1823

  • Four letters on the necessity of checking population. Appeared in Black Dwarf 1923. CW: XXII.

Use and Abuse of Political Terms. Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine, I (May, 1832), 164-72. Unsigned. CW: XVIII

Corporation and Church Property 1833

  • Corporation and Church Property,” The Jurist, or Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence and Legislation, IV (Feb., 1833), 1-26 (unsigned).
  • Anonymous pamphlet: Corporation and Church Property Resumable by the State. London: Sweet, Stevens, and Maxwell, 1833. CW IV.

“Remarks on Bentham’s Philosophy.” Published as anonymous appendix in Edward Lytton Bulwer, England and the English. Bentley, London 1933, II, 321-44. CW: X.

On Tocqueville 1835-1840

  • “De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [I]” London Review, I (Oct., 1835), 85-129. CW: XVIII
  • “De Tocqueville on Democracy in America [II]” Edinburgh Review, October 1840. CW: XVIII

“Civilization” London and Westminster Review, April 1836. CW: XVIII

‘Parties and the Ministry.” London and Westminster Review, VI & XXVIII (Oct., 1837), 1-26. CW VI.

“The French Revolution: A History.” London and Westminster Review, V & XXVII (July, 1837), 17-53. A review of Carlyle’s History of the French Revolution. CW XX.

French Revolution. Westminster Review, V (Apr., 1826), 385-98. A review of Mignet’s History of the French Revolution.

Scott’s Life of Napoleon. Westminster Review, IX (Apr., 1828), 251-313. Review of Sir Walter Scott’s Life of Bonaparte. 

“Bentham.” London and Westminster Review, August 1938. CW: X.

“Coleridge.” London and Westminster Review, March 1840. CW: X.

A System of Logic 1843   

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, Volume 1. John W. Parker, 1843.

A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation, Volume 2. John W. Parker, 1843.

Essays on Political Economy 1844

  • Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy. John W. Parker, London 1844.

“The Claims of Labour” 1945

  • “The Claims of Labour.” Edinburgh Review, LXXXI (Apr., 1845), 498-525 (unsigned). Review of Help: The Claims of Labour: an Essay on the Duties of the Employers to the Employed. Pickering, London 1844. CW IV.

The Principles of Political Economy 1848

 The Principles of Political Economy: with some of their applications to social philosophy 1848.

The Principles of Political Economy

I: (Books I-II) CW II

II. CW

New edition by Jonathan Riley. Oxford University Press, 1998.

“The Negro Question” 1850

  • Fraser’s Magazine, XLI (Jan., 1850), 25-31. In response to Thomas Carlyle, “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question,” Fraser’s Magazine, XL (Dec., 1849), 670-9. CW: XXI.

The regulation of the London water supply 1851

  • Public Agency v. Trading Companies: The Economical and Administrative Principles of Water-Supply for the Metropolis. Correspondence between John Stuart Mill, Esq., Author of “Principles of Political Economy,” and the Metropolitan Sanitary Association on the Proper Agency for Regulating the Water-Supply for the Metropolis, as a Question of Economical and Administrative Principle. London: Metropolitan Sanitary Association, [1851,] 19-23. CW:V

On Liberty 1859         

On Liberty. London: John W. Parker and Son, London 1859.

On Liberty. In J. S. Mill: ‘On Liberty’ and Other Writings. Edited by Stefan Collini. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge 1989

Vapaudesta. Suomentanut Niilo Liakka. Otava, Helsinki 1891.  Ajanmukaisestettu 1981. Reima T. A. Luoto. Studia liberalia  Librum, Helsinki 1982

 

‘Thoughts on Parliamentary Reform.  Pamphlet, February 1859.  CW: XIX

Representative Government 1861

Considerations on Representative Government. Parker, Son, and Bourn, London 1861. CW: XIX.

“Centralisation” A review of M. Dupont White and M. Odilon Barrot’s writings on Centralization, in the Edinburgh Review for April 1862” CW: XIX.

Utilitarianism 1863     

  • Three articles published in Fraser’s Magazine, LXIV (Oct., 1861), 391-406 [Chaps. i-ii], ibid. (Nov., 1861), 525-34 [Chaps. iii-iv], ibid. (Dec., 1861), 658-73 [Chap. v].
  • Utilitarianism: Parker, Son, and Bourn, London 1863, 1864, 1867. CW: X.

Auguste Comte and Positivism 1865

  • Auguste Comte and Positivism. London: Trübner, London 1865, 1866. CW: X.
    • The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte. Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, LXXXIII (Apr., 1865), 339-405.
    • Later Speculations of Auguste Comte. Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review, LXXXIV (July, 1865), 1-42.

On Hamilton’s Philosophy 1865

An Examination of William Hamilton’s Philosophy 1865. CW: IX.  

Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London 1867. CW : XXI.

The Subjection of Women  1869 

 The Subjection of Women 1869.  In J. S. Mill: ‘On Liberty’ and Other Writings. Edited by Stefan Collini. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge 1989

Naisten asema. Suomentanut Lyyli Vihervaara. 1910. Librum 1983.

Autobiography 1873.

  • Autobiography of John Stuart Mill. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London 1873.  CW I.

Property and Taxation. Fortnightly Review, n.s. XIII (Mar., 1873), 396-8. CW: V.

Three Essays on Religion 1874

  • Three Essays on Religion. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, London 1874. Published and edited posthumously by Helen Taylor. CW: X.

On Socialism 1879

  • Unfinished manuscript published posthumously by his step-daughter Helen Taylor.
  • “Chapters on Socialism. By John Stuart Mill.” Fortnightly Review, n.s. XXV (Feb., 1879), 217-37; ibid. (Mar., 1879), 373-82; ibid. (Apr., 1879), 513-30.
  • Chapters on Socialism 1879. In J. S. Mill: ‘On Liberty’ and Other Writings. Edited by Stefan Collini. Cambridge University Press; Cambridge 1989