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IT IS NOW 140 years since John Stuart Mill's Considerations on Representative Government was published. It has remained relevant ever since to the problems facing civilisation; today its relevance to the world in general is greater than ever, bordering indeed on the uncanny.
Mill proclaims the superiority of Anglo-American civilisation. He does not say that America is a further development of the civilisation built up in the British Isles from the Middle Ages and especially from the seventeenth century onwards. He could have said that and perhaps he did say it elsewhere. I hope I will confound the multiculturalists by my straightforward opinion that Anglo-American ...