"Democracy and Liberty" is about a great many things besides democracy and liberty in purest form. To name only a few of these things: the Irish land question, Indian suttee, Mormonism and polygamy, England´s Italian policy, gambling, drunkenness as a disease, divorce, and women´s rights. This is the first volume of a two volume work in which Lecky explores how the growing tendency towards untrammeled democracy might undermine individual liberty in the coming century.