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Jan 23, 2012

Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION.  Part 1

"... Let us suppose, therefore, that the government is entirely at one with the people, and never thinks of exerting any power of coercion unless in agreement with what it conceives to be their voice. But I deny the right of the people to exercise...


Jan 9, 2012

Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTORY

"The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual."

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