 Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.  On Liberty - 6. lappuseautors: John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 68 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 lapas
...choice of means for overcoming them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end,...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then,... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 lapas
...choice of means for overcoming them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end,...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 lapas
...choice of means for overcoming . them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvemen/is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unj attainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of ! government in dealing with barbarians, pro- f I... | |
 | 1866 - 566 lapas
...subjects, but possessing no attributes of British citizens. 'Despotism,' says Mr. John Stuart Mill, 'is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to :he time when mankind have become capable of leing improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
 | 1868 - 978 lapas
...the scorching fires of unmitigated ambition. Yet, to an Akbar or Charlemagne, it might appear that "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...their improvement, and the means justified by actually attaining that end," without their being chargeable with this narrow selfishness ; inasmuch as it is... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 lapas
...previous page is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. And that* " despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...the means justified by actually effecting that end." Again, we are toldf that " complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 lapas
...backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered in its nonage/ Despotism, he says, ' is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877 - 618 lapas
...considered as in its nonage." In such an age " a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end...government in dealing with barbarians, provided the * The reader may compare to his advantage with this exposition of Mr. Mill's views, Mr. Stephen's "... | |
 | David George Ritchie - 1891 - 192 lapas
...product of a very 1 advanced civilisation, and is rare even in the most advanced societies. Mill says, "Liberty as a principle has no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion." If we take... | |
 | William Henry Van Ornum - 1892 - 384 lapas
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." But on the very next page he adds: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...the means justified by actually effecting that end." According to that, the barbarians in our cities, who are made so, and kept so by the law, may leg^... | |
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