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Discussed and debated from time immemorial, the concept of personal liberty went without codification until the publication of this enduring work which applies an ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state which to this day remains well known and studied.

Citation: Castle, Clara Francelia. Perfect liberty. Senior thesis, Kansas State Agricultural College, 1894. ; Morse Department of Special Collections ; Introduction: Man early shared the love of greater gain, which generated oppression and bondage. The question of liberty has been the thought and highest interest of the nations. Much study has been put upon the beginnings and growth of liberty; and to understand its nature, has been the desire of man. Often, for the best growth of liberty, there must be revolution and bloodshed, before it can be fully established. The settlement of the colonies, the separation from England, and the civil war, examples of revolution that were necessary, for the higher advancement of liberty. Individual and civil liberty are closely connected. Religion, society, and custom, may be transformed into a yoke that binds. The final triumph, when perfect liberty will exist.

At the time it was published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty was a radical and controversial work; it argued for the right of individuals to possess freedom from the state in moral and economic matters. Mill declares that "Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign", contrasting this with the "tyranny of the majority." He states that an individual can do anything they like as long as it doesn't harm another - the well-known...