Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious
thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty-one of the sacred texts of liberalism-he argues
that any democracy risks becoming a tyranny of opinion in which minority views are suppressed if they do not
conform to those of the majority. The Subjection of Women, written shortly after the death of Mills wife, Harriet,
stresses the importance of sexual equality. Together they provide eloquent testimony to the hopes and anxieties
of Victorian England, and offer a trenchant consideration of what it really means to be free.