Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Nigel Blower and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's Notes: The first part of this volume (September 1879) was produced as Project Gutenberg Ebook #30048. The relevant part of the table of contents has been extracted from that document, and a brief title page added. _Italic words_ have been enclosed in underscores. *Gesperrt* (spaced) letters have been enclosed in asterisks. Symbols such as hieroglyphics or script letters have been represented using braces, e.g. {symbol}. A few minor typographical errors have been silently corrected. Some inconsistent hyphenation and accents have been retained.] THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW VOLUME XXXVI. NOVEMBER, 1879 CONTENTS. NOVEMBER, 1879. PAGE On Freedom. By Professor Max Müller 369 Mr. Gladstone: Two Studies suggested by his "Gleanings of Past Years." I. By a Liberal.--II. By a Conservative 398 The Ancien Régime and the Revolution in France. By Professor von Sybel 432 What is the Actual Condition of Ireland? By Edward Stanley Robertson 451 The Deluge: Its Traditions in Ancient Nations. By François Lenormant 465 Suspended Animation. By Richard A. Proctor 501 John Stuart Mill's Philosophy Tested. IV.--Utilitarianism. By Professor W. Stanley Jevons 521 ON FREEDOM.[1] Not more than twenty years have passed since John Stuart Mill sent forth his plea for Liberty.[2] If there is one among the leaders of thought in England who, by the elevation of his character and the calm composure of his mind, deserved the so often misplaced title of Serene Highness, it was, I think, John Stuart Mill. But in his Essay "On Liberty," Mill for once becomes passionate. In presenting his Bill of Rights, in stepping forward as the champion of individual liberty, a new spirit seems to have taken possession of him. He speaks like a martyr, or the defender of martyrs. The individual human soul, with its unfathomable endowments, and its capacity of growing to something undreamt of in our philosophy, becomes in his eyes a sacred thing, and every encroachment on its world-wide domain is treated as sacrilege. Society, the arch-enemy of the rights of individuality, is represented like an evil spirit, whom it behoves every true man to resist with might and main, and whose demands, as they cannot be altogether ignored, must be reduced at all hazards to the lowest level.