All citations to Mill in this volume are taken from the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Toronto University Press, Toronto, 1963–1991, and edited by John M. Robson.
References are to volume and page and, in order to minimize in‐text disruption, we have adopted the following abbreviations throughout the volume:
| Auguste Comte | Auguste Comte and Positivism |
| Chapters | Chapters on Socialism |
| Considerations | Considerations on Representative Government |
| Early Draft | Early Draft of the Autobiography |
| Examination | An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy |
| Inaugural Address | Inaugural Address to the University of St Andrews |
| Liberty | On Liberty |
| Logic | System of Logic |
| Notes on the Analysis | Notes on the Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind |
| Principles | Principles of Political Economy |
| Rejected Leaves | Rejected Leaves of the Autobiography |
| Subjection | Subjection of Women |
| Thoughts on Poetry | Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties |