Dont try to supress government control; just give me my freedom

John Stuart Mill who lived from 1806 to 1873, a century later than Wollstonecraft. He wrote about liberty and what people meant by liberty and then what he meant by liberty, saying that the conflict between authority and liberty is a subject much discussed throughout the ages but that he himself does not appreciate the way in which the focus on the good of society is regarded as being of higher importance than the good of the individual person. John Stuart Mill feels that if everyone lives in accordance to what they feel is right, without harming others, this is morally better than trying to do what everybody else says is generally right. John Stuart Mill writes about society dominating the individual ‘both by the force of opinion and even by that of legislation’, he also says that ‘this encroachment is not one of the evils which tend spontaneously to disappear, but, on the contrary, to grow more and more formidable’ (Stuart Mill 1869, ch.1). Stuart Mill feels that to focus on one’s inner conscious or state of being and actions is advantageous in having control; however Stuart Mill does understand that the individual may also have effect on others through his individual actions. To sum up John Stuart Mill’s ideas, for him freedom meant space to be an individual more than suppression of the governments rules on society which was the common idea of the time; lets make rules to prevent those in power hurting the weaker community too much. Yet John Stuart Mills was against the idea of unlimited state control.