TAILIEUCHUNG - The History of Freedom

The two volumes here published contain but a small selection from the numerous writings of Acton on a variety of topics, which are to be found scattered through many periodicals of the last half-century. The result here displayed is therefore not complete. A further selection of nearly equal quantity might be made, and still much that is valuable in Acton's work would remain buried. Here, for instance, we have extracted nothing from the Chronicle; and Acton's gifts as a leader-writer remain without illustration. Yet they were remarkable. Rarely did he show to better advantage than in the articles and reviews he wrote in that short-lived. | The History of Freedom by 1 The History of Freedom by John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title The History of Freedom Author John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Release Date February 15 2010 EBook 31278 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM Produced by Steven Giacomelli Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive Canadian Libraries THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND OTHER ESSAYS MACMILLAN AND CO. Limited 2 The History of Freedom by LONDON BOMBAY CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO ATLANTA SAN FRANSISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA LTD. TORONTO Illustration Acton THE HISTORY OF FREEDOM AND OTHER ESSAYS BY JOHN EMERICH EDWARD DALBERG-ACTON FIRST BARON ACTON . . ETC. ETC. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN NEVILLE FIGGIS . SOMETIME LECTURER IN ST. CATHARINE S COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE AND REGINALD VERE LAURENCE . FELLOW AND LECTURER OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE MACMILLAN AND CO. LIMITED ST. MARTIN S STREET LONDON 1909 First Edition 1907 Reprinted 1909 PREFATORY NOTE The Editors desire to thank the members of the Acton family for their help and advice during the preparation of this volume and of the volume of Historical Essays and Studies. They have had the advantage of access to many of Acton s letters especially those to Dollinger and Lady Blennerhasset. They have thus been provided The History of Freedom by 3 with valuable material for the Introduction. At the same time they wish to take the entire responsibility for the opinions .

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• Prospect of Deliverance
• Religious Toleration
• Reason Free
• Reason in Prison
• Bibliography Index
• The Progress of Rationalism