Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

Editor's Note

EDITOR'S NOTE The copytext for this edition of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is the second edition of 1874, published by Smith, Elder, & Co. In a small number of cases, I compared the second edition to the first edition of 1873. I have made several changes in the text. I have moved Stephen's "Preface to the Second Edition" to follow the text. This preface is a lengthy reply to two critics of the first edition of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, and, since the text of the second edition is virtually identical to that of the first, this preface is best positioned following the text itself. Stephen quotes Mill some 125 times, and almost all of these quotations come from three of Mill's works: On Liberty, The Sub;ection of Women, and Utilitarianism. I have provided these references in brackets following the various quotations as follows. In the case of the first two of these works, I have provided citations to two editions of Mill's writings. The first citation is from Stefan Collini's edition of Mill's On Liberty with the Sub;ection of Women and Chapters on Socialism;1 the second citation is from the appropriate volume of the University of Toronto Press edition of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill.2 Thus, for example, "78/278 L" is a reference to On Liberty, referring to p. 78 of the Collini edition and p. 278 of the 1. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty with the Sub;ection of Women and Chapters on Socialism, ed. Stefan Collini, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). 2. John Stuart Mill, Collected Works ofJohn Stuart Mill, ed. J. M. Robson, 33 vols. (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1963-1991), vol. 10, Essays on Ethics, Religion, and Society [UtiLitarianism] (1969), vol. 18, Essays on Politics and Society [On Liberty] (1977), vol. 21, Essays on Equality, Law, and Education [The Sub;ection of Women] (1984). xxv Liberty_i-xxx.indd 26 8/28/08 1:28:36 PM EDITOR'S NOT E University of Toronto Press edition; "119/261 SW" is a reference to The Sub- ;ection ofWomen, referring to p. 119 of the Collini edition and p. 261 of the University of Toronto Press edition. In the case of Utilitarianism (abbreviated by U), I have provided a citation only from the Collected Works. Quotations from others of Mill's writings are cited in footnotes. Stephen's quotations from Mill are not always accurate. I have corrected these. I have silently made the change for punctuation and when Stephen has accidentally substituted a synonym; I have noted the cases in which there are more substantial differences. All of Stephen's footnotes are indicated as in the 1874 edition by an asterisk ; editor's footnotes are indicated by a number. These notes have been kept to a minimum, typically directing the reader to something else Stephen has written that illuminates the matter at hand. Material within brackets is in all cases my addition. Material within braces is Stephen's addition. I have silently modernized Stephen's punctuation. In most cases this involved omitting one punctuation mark where two appeared together (for example , omitting a dash when it immediately followed a colon). Also, Stephen sometimes fails to place his mention of a word in single quotation marks, and I have silently added these marks (for example, I added single quotation marks in this phrase: "the words 'temporal' and 'spiritual' "). I have also modernized the language to a certain extent-for example, transforming "anyone" to "anyone," "to-morrow" to "tomorrow," and so on. I have been aided in this project by conversations with Timothy Fuller, Gilbert Goldman, Emilio Pacheco, and, most especially, Inger Thomsen. I dedicate this book, with incalculable gratitude, to Harold Trueman Walsh. XXVI ...