Comments on: On Liberty at 150 http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/07/12/on-liberty-at-150/ Personal website and weblog of the libertarian thinker Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:50:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Tom G. Palmer http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/07/12/on-liberty-at-150/comment-page-1/#comment-10227 Tom G. Palmer Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:58:33 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=3687#comment-10227 I should have mentioned that Jude alerted me to the article! I agree that "only" is used incorrectly. Tocqueville is certainly read widely in America, at least, but perhaps not in Australia. I'm sure that in Australia Mill is the most widely read nineteenth century liberal. Wollstonecraft died in 1797, so she doesn't count, and she's probably not read nearly as widely as Mill. I think that Andrew would probably be correct to write that in the twentyfirst century Mill is "the most widely read" of the nineteenth century liberals, at least in the English-speaking world. I should have mentioned that Jude alerted me to the article!

I agree that “only” is used incorrectly. Tocqueville is certainly read widely in America, at least, but perhaps not in Australia. I’m sure that in Australia Mill is the most widely read nineteenth century liberal.

Wollstonecraft died in 1797, so she doesn’t count, and she’s probably not read nearly as widely as Mill.

I think that Andrew would probably be correct to write that in the twentyfirst century Mill is “the most widely read” of the nineteenth century liberals, at least in the English-speaking world.

]]> By: Jude Blanchette http://tomgpalmer.com/2009/07/12/on-liberty-at-150/comment-page-1/#comment-10223 Jude Blanchette Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:41:03 +0000 http://tomgpalmer.com/?p=3687#comment-10223 Interesting essay, but I do find his opening claim ("John Stuart Mill is the only nineteenth century liberal intellectual still widely read and discussed in the twenty-first century") a little odd. Certainly the names Acton, Burckhardt, Wollstonecraft, and Tocqueville are almost as well known as is the name Mill. Interesting essay, but I do find his opening claim (“John Stuart Mill is the only nineteenth century liberal intellectual still widely read and discussed in the twenty-first century”) a little odd. Certainly the names Acton, Burckhardt, Wollstonecraft, and Tocqueville are almost as well known as is the name Mill.

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