Excerpt from The Principles of State Interference
HE first three essays in this volume were published five years ago in Time, and are mainly occupied with a criticism of Mr. Herbert Spencer's T/ze Man versus t/ze State and of certain parts of J. S. Mill's Liberty. The fourth essay ap peared in the Contemporary Review for June, 1887. The questions discussed have certainly not declined in importance since these dates. The first three essays have, in parts, undergone considerable altera tion. But I have retained the original form and manner of treatment, in the belief that a short and controversial examination of two very well known books may, for many purposes, be more profitable than an elaborate and systematic treatise, for which in any case I have not found the leisure. Some thing may still be said for using the dialectical.
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