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Liberalism

See Main Page for a guide to all contents of all sections.

Contents

Liberalism
- Utilitarianism
- Laissez-Faire Economics
- Radical Politics
- John Stuart Mill
- Welfare Liberalism
Feminism
- Origins
- Political Feminism
  - United States
  - Britain
  - Other Countries
- Prohibitionism

Liberalism

Utilitarianism
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Principles of Morals and Legislation [At Constitution.org][Full Text]
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832): Offences Against Oneself, c. 1785 [At Columbia],
  One of the earliest modern considerations of homosexuality from a Liberal perspective.
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): Utilitarianism, 1863 [At Project Gutenberg][Full Text]
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): Utilitarian Follies [At this Site]
- Lysander Spooner: Vices Are Not Crimes: A Vindication of Moral Liberty, 1875 [At Drug Library]
Laissez-Faire Economics
- Adam Smith: The Principle of the Mercantile System, 1776, from Wealth of Nations. [At this Site]
- Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, 1776, an epitome, [At this Site]
- Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834): First Essay on Population, 1798, excerpts [At this Site]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): An Essay on the Principles of Population, 1798 [At McMaster][Full Text]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The Corn Laws [At Yale][Full Text]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn [At Yale][Full Text]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): The High Price of Provisions [At Yale][Full Text]
- Thomas Malthus (1766-1834): An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent [At Yale][Full Text]
- David Ricardo (1772-1823): The Iron Law of Wages, 1817, excerpts [At this Site]
- David Ricardo: The Principles of Political Economy, 1817, an epitome [At this Site]
- David Riccardo (1772-1823): Principles of Political Economy [At McMaster][Full Text]
- Pamphlet: In Defence of Laissez-Faire, c. 1840 [At this Site]
  A British argument against the Ten Hour Acts.
Radical Politics
- Sydney Smith (1771-1845): Fallacies of Anti-Reformers, 1824 [At this Site]
- The Peterloo Massacre, 1819 [At this Site]
- John Henry Newman (1801-1890): Who is to Blame? [At this Site]
  Newman on the nature of constitutional government.
John Stuart Mill
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): On Liberty, extracts [At WSU]
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): On Liberty [At this Site][Full Text]
- John Stuart Mill: Representative Government, 1861, full text [At Constitution.org]
- John Stuart Mill: On Colonies and Colonization, 1848 [At this Site]
Other Liberalisms
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): Civil Disobedience, excerpts,1846 [At this Site]
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862): On Civil Disobedience [At ArtBin][Full Text]
Welfare Liberalism
- John Stuart Mill (1806-73): Liberalism Evaluated, 1873, from his Autobiography [At this Site]
  Mill discusses how his faith in Liberalism slipped away and he began tending towards Liberal Socialism (i.e., that of Hobhouse rather than the Fabians).
- Joseph Chamberlain: The Radical Programme, 1885 [At this Site]
- W. L. Blease: The New Liberalism, 1913 [At this Site]
  On the emergence of social reformist/welfare liberalism, as in the British government of 1906.
- The Earl of Rosebery: The State of Liberalism, 1908 [At this Site]
- L. T. Hobhouse: Liberalism, 1911 [At this Site]
  An early 20th century restatement of Liberalism which takes account of the Marxist challenge.

Feminism

Origins
- Olympe de Gouges: Declaration of the Rights of Women, 1791, excerpts [At this Site]
- Mary Wollstonecraft : Vindication of the Rights of Women, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Baylor]
- Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Women [Full Text][At this Site]
Political Feminism
- United States
  - WEB See Library of Congress: National Women's Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 [At Library of Congress]
    Full texts of 167 books and other documents.
  - Seneca Falls Declaration, 1848 [At this Site]
  - Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): 'An't I a Woman?', 1851 [At this Site]
    A rough-hewn account.
  - Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): 'Ain't I a Woman?', 1851 [At this Site]
    The usual cleaned-up version.
  - Oliver Gilbert: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, based on information provided by Sojourner Truth, 1850 [At Project Gutenberg]
  - Woman's Rights Petition to the New York Legislature, 1854 [At Furman]
  - Report of the Select Committee [On the Women's Rights Petition], In Assembly, March 27, 1854 [At Furman]
  - Catherine Booth (1829-1890): Female Ministry: or, Woman's Right to Preach the Gospel, 1859 [At Indiana][Full Text]
  - Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906): On Women's Right to Vote, 1873 [At this Site]
  - 2ND Patricia Cline Cohen: The Murder of Helen Jewett The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, Chapter 1 [At NY Times: you will be asked to "sign up" to access the text]
  - Hearing of the Women Suffrage Association, before the House Committee on the Judiciary, January 18, 1892 [At Hanover]
  - Frances E. Willard (1839-1898): Address to Women's National Council, February 22-25, 1891 [At this Site]
  - Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): Autobiography, excerpts [At this Site]
    On why she became a crusader for birth control.
  - Margaret Sanger (1883-1966):Woman and the New Race, 1920 [Full Text][At Project Gutenberg]
    Note: this link is to an edition published as an "Eugenics classic" by the "American Life League". The text is intact (Chapter was 8 checked).
  - Margaret Sanger (1883-1966): The Pivot of Civilization, full text [At Project Gutenberg]
  - WEB Suffragists Oral History Project [At Berkeley]
  - Jane Addams: Why Women Should Vote, 1915 [At this Site]
  - The Passage of the 19th Amendment, articles from the New York Times, 1919-1920 [At this Site]
- Britain
  - John Stuart Mill (1806-73): The Subjection of Women [At this Site][Full Text]
  - Caroline Norton (1808-1877): English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century, 1854 [At Victorian Women Writers Project]
  - Caroline Norton (1808-1877): A Letter to the Queen on Lord Chancellor Cranworth's Marriage and Divorce Bill 1855 [At Victorian Women Writers Project]
  - Helen Taylor (1831-1907): The Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered, 1867 [At Indiana]
  - Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): Militant Suffragism, 1913 [At this Site]
    It's hard to believe she ended up as a Conservative.
  - Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928): My Own Story, 1914 [At this Site]
    Long excerpts from the leading British feminist activist.
  - Ada E Leslie: Letters from a Victorian Governess/Companion, to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece [At demon.uk]
- Other Countries
  - Maria Eugenia Echenique: The Emancipation of Women, 1876 [At WSU] - An Argentinian feminist.
Prohibitionism
- Abraham Lincoln: Temperance Address: Delivered before the Springfield (Illinois) Washington Temperance Society,22d February, 1842 [At Drug Library]
- H. H. Kane: A Hashish-House in New York, Harper's Monthly, Vol. 67 (November, 1883), 944-49. [At Drug Library]
- F. E. Oliver, M.D. : The Use and Abuse of Opium, Massachusetts State Board of Health, Third Annual Report (Boston: Wright and Potter, State Printers, 1872), 162-77. [At Drug Library]
- Anonymous: Confessions of a Young Lady Laudanum-Drinker, The Journal of Mental Sciences January 1889
- The Woman's Crusade of 1873-74 [At Drug Library]
  A high point of anti-liquor/drugs activity.
- Woman's Christian Temperance Union: Growth of Membership and of Local, Auxiliary Unions, 1879-1921 [At this Site]
- 2ND Richard Hamm: American Prohibitionists and Violence, 1865-1920 [At Schaffer Drug Library]

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