...acknowledge Divinity as we freely determine. Quoting the English philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1813), "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever...enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men." If this sort of ethos seems unattainable, this is so only because we have been negatively programmed...

...play to the nature of each, it is essential that different people should be allowed to lead different lives. In proportion as this latitude has been exercised in any age, that age has been noteworthy to posterity. Even despotism does not produce its worst effects so long...

...play to the nature of each it is essential that different persons should be allowed to lead different lives in proportion as this latitude has been exercised...noteworthy to posterity even despotism does not produce its worse effects so long as individuality exists under it and whatever crushes individuality is despotism...