 Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.  On Liberty - 117. lappuseautors: John Stuart Mill - 1869 - 223 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Elizabeth C. T. Carne - 1868 - 204 lapas
...MILL, in his work on liberty, speaks of human nature as " a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." In most cases an illustration is not meant to be strictly correct, and therefore is not a fair subject... | |
 | William Holme Van Buren - 1869 - 20 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly the work required of it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." The want of so-called classical education is a disadvantage to the American student, which requires... | |
 | 1869 - 618 lapas
...model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."* 6. — Finally, if it be the State's office " to ensure the conditions necessary for the free growth... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or evcu occasionally an intelligent de viation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical... | |
 | William Trant - 1884 - 206 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." There would, in a purely co-operative state of society, be no struggle, no desire on the part of men... | |
 | 1888 - 364 lapas
...be built after a model and set to do a certain work, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." Would it be possible to change a maple into an oak by cultivation ? Furnish richer soil, remove obstructions... | |
 | 1894 - 916 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly he work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop piness .vhich make it a living thing. It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 404 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...living thing. It will probably be conceded that it is de sirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom,... | |
 | Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 lapas
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."3 The character of each individual member of society is not simply a means to social prosperity,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 lapas
...model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." P. 39 : " If a person possesses any tolerable amount of common sense and experience, his own mode of... | |
| |
