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100			_a"Mill, Stuart John"
245		0	_aConsiderations on representative government
260			_aLondon
260			_bLongmans
260			_c1890
300			_a141 p.
520			_aThose who have done me the honour of reading my previous writings, will probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volume for the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greater part of my life, and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated by others or by myself. There is novelty, however, in the fact of bringing them together, and exhibiting them in their connexion; and also, I believe, in much that is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at all events, if not new, are for the present as little likely to meet with general acceptance as if they were. It seems to me, however, from various indications, and from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) have lost confidence in the political creeds which they nominally profess while neither side appears to have made any progress in providing itself with a better. Yet such a better doctrine must be possible; not a mere compro muise, by splitting the difference between the two, but something wider than either, which, in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing anything which he really feels to be valuable in his own creed. When so many feel obscurely the want of such a doctrine, and so few even flatter themselves that they have attained it, any one may without presumption offer what his own houghts, and the best that he knows of those of others, are able to con ribute towanls its formation.
650			_aForm of government
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