Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end. Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to the... The Dublin Review - Page 70edited by - 1869Full view - About this book
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...that end. 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... | |
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...that end. 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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pages
...attainable. \_Despotism is a legitimate mode of / j ' government in dealing with barbarians, pro-^ vided the end be their improvement, and the means justified...end. " " 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... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...of ! government in dealing with barbarians, pro- f I vided the end be their improvement, and the i means justified by actually effecting that end. liberty, as a principle, has. no application to any state of things anterio\ia the time when '< mankind have become cap|ta{y of being improved by... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...that end. 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... | |
| 1866 - 566 pages
...subjects, but possessing no attributes of British citizens. 'Despotism,' says Mr. John Stuart Mill, 'is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...that end. Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state of things anterior to :he time when mankind have become capable of leing improved by free... | |
| 1868 - 978 pages
...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... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 pages
...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...that end. 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... | |
| William Henry Van Ornum - 1892 - 384 pages
...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^... | |
| Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...Emerson. Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full. / Weak 30 and unmanly, loosens every power. f>:o»tfon. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...the means justified by actually effecting that end. j S. Mill. Despotism is essential in most enterprises ; I am told they do not tolerate "freedom of... | |
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