This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.

The object of this Essay is to explain the grounds of an opinion which I have held from the very earliest period when I had formed any opinions at all on social or political matters. -J.S. Mill

The author intended this work to be the best theory for ethics and it's considered the best philosophical work to articulate liberal humanistic morality produced in the nineteenth century.

The work is structured as a logical argument against the societal norms and legal structures that subjugated women. Mill begins by addressing the natural differences argument, which claimed that women were naturally inferior to men.

This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.

Besides these monumental works, he also produced A System of Logic, an important work on the philosophy of science, Principles of Political Economy, one of the most influential economics textbooks of the 19th century, and many other notable ...

This revised 1866 second edition presents Mill's discussion of the positivist views of French philosopher Auguste Comte (1798-1857).

Presented here are all four chapters of Mill's essay written in 1861, which address the legal subordination of women as manifested in their exclusion from the political process and their lack of any rights within marriage.