It was better to let George IV and William IV tarnish the institution by the nature of their actions.Īnother reason for non-completion (for which material was clearly available in his notes) derives from the fact that he added a second section on Liberty of the Press (3r-19v) around 1818 (if the publishing dates of much of the material in it indicate the time at which it was entered), possibly when he was preparing to write “Liberty of the Press” which appeared in the Encyclopædia Britannica in 1822. One possible reason for Mill’s not completing or extending this topic is that, despite the radical tone of his articles in the last six years of his life in the Westminster Review and in the London Review, there was a limit to what could be said concerning the corruption of the political system at that time, and given the religious reverence still accorded the king, an open attack on the monarchy and aristocracy was probably self-defeating.
This material also overlaps that to be found in § 9: Aristocracy. In CPB II there are also some in the groupings on political reform and on the Whigs (Ins and Outs) that might fit here just as well. There are some ten items that might suit this theme scattered throughout CPB V. The title is derived from the scrap title list in CPB V. This is the shortest section of the whole text, but not for a lack of interest in the subject on Mill’s part.
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