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 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 Seiten
...reluctantly, and grumblingly in its wake."* And, as Mr. Mill well says; (Essay on " Liberty," p. 126.) "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...liberty, or that of progress or improvement." The party affecting reform, being also governed by their notions of utility, most frequently accept concessions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 Seiten
...that made England what it has been ; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...antagonism to that disposition to aim at something betterthan customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 Seiten
...that made England what it has been ; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, ibr it ma*,' aim at forcing improvements OF WELL-BEING. 41 on an unwilling people ; and the spirit... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 Seiten
...thought.' * I will now refer by the following passage to the evils of custom considered generally: 'The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...to circumstances, the spirit of liberty or that of progressive improvement. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 Seiten
...passage to the evils of cost-' -re considered generally : ' The despotism of custom is everywhr--:v the standing hindrance to human advancement, being-...to circumstances, the spirit of liberty or that of progressive improvement. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1884 - 308 Seiten
...than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being m unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called,... | |
 | 1894 - 916 Seiten
...that made England what it has been; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. sophizing horses, nothing but such circumstantial...the imagination. Of all the poets who have introduce than^ietomary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress... | |
 | Robert Jameson Mackenzie - 1906 - 466 Seiten
...pages of our philosophers. 'The despotism of custom,' writes Mill in his accepted work on Liberty, ' is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement,...called, according to circumstances, the spirit of l1berty, or that of progress or improvement.' And again: ' The progressive principle in either shape,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 Seiten
...what it has been; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotismjjf custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism -ito ttiat disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 88 Seiten
...antagonism to that disposition to aim at somethingbetterthan customary, which is called, accoixling to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of...improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it ma<v aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it... | |
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