Icyblue template for Pivot

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The template used for making this page is an adaptation of the IcyBlue template for creating weblogs with the Pivot publishing system.
Do you like it? Well, the templates are released under a Creative Commons License so you are free to use them for your personal blog.
What you have to do is just:

• Download the installation files (hosted in Neil Turner's Icyblue Template page)
• Follow the installation instructions

Have a nice weblogging!

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Chapter I - Introductory

The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. A question seldom stated, and hardly ever discussed, in general terms, but which profoundly influences the practical controversies of the age by its latent presence, and is likely soon to make itself recognized as the vital question of the future. It is so far from being new, that, in a certain sense, it has divided mankind, almost from the remotest ages, but in the stage of progress into which the more civilized portions of the species have now entered, it presents itself under new conditions, and requires a different and more fundamental treatment. The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar, particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England. But in old times this contest was between subjects, or some classes of subjects, and the government.

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