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MILL (JOHN STUART) On Liberty, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE, John W. Parker, 1859
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MILL (JOHN STUART)
Footnotes
The book arrived some two months before Tocqueville's death; he "acknowledged it at once. 'Nor do I doubt for a moment that in the field of liberty we will always march forward shoulder to shoulder'... He looked forward to reading the book, but there is no evidence that he ever did so - not surprising, given the state of his health, but deeply regrettable, for if he had he would have seen his own influence stamped deep on almost every page of Mill's masterpiece" (Brogan, p. 627). Mill "was the first to recognize the tendency of a democratically elected majority to tyrannize over a minority" (PMM). We can trace no signed or inscribed copy of On Liberty in the auction records.

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