 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.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 4161888Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 Seiten
...the world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Qiuman nature is not a machine to be built after a model,...prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develope itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a i living... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 Seiten
...of the world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model,...prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develops itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it. a living... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 Seiten
...of the world, and who assuredly are but starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model,...itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people... | |
 | Elizabeth C. T. Carne - 1868 - 204 Seiten
...need another remedy. CHAPTEE III. RESTRAINT. 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... | |
 | 1869 - 618 Seiten
...healthily, we cannot too carefully remember that "human nature is not a machine, to be built afters model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...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... | |
 | William Holme Van Buren - 1869 - 20 Seiten
...emergencies of American life of to-day. " For," as Mill says wisely, in his " Essay on Liberty," " human nature is not a machine, to be built after a 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... | |
 | 1873 - 698 Seiten
...he soon became as great a dunce as other boys. Stuart Mill, in his essay on Liberty, says : " Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, hut a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the... | |
 | 1917 - 498 Seiten
...unless the welfare of other individ-J uals or of society clearly requires it. "Human nature," says Mill, "is not a machine to be built after a model, and set...a tree ' which requires to grow and develop itself character are 'sufficiently important to compensate for the loss of that fine sense of personal independence,... | |
 | 1922 - 694 Seiten
...but not creators of the non-existing. John Stuart Hill is very much to the point when he says, "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according... | |
 | William Trant - 1884 - 206 Seiten
...really important not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it. . . . Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model,...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,... | |
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