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... experience . Not by experience alone . There must be discussion , to show how experience is to be interpreted . Wrong opinions and prac- tices 38 OF THE LIBERTY OF.
... experience . Not by experience alone . There must be discussion , to show how experience is to be interpreted . Wrong opinions and prac- tices 38 OF THE LIBERTY OF.
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... essence being lost . The great chapter in human history which this fact occupies and fills , cannot be too earnestly studied and meditated on . It is illustrated in the experience of almost all ethical THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION . 71.
... essence being lost . The great chapter in human history which this fact occupies and fills , cannot be too earnestly studied and meditated on . It is illustrated in the experience of almost all ethical THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION . 71.
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john stuart mill. It is illustrated in the experience of almost all ethical doctrines and religious creeds . They are all full of meaning and vitality to those who ori- ginate them , and to the direct disciples of the originators . Their ...
john stuart mill. It is illustrated in the experience of almost all ethical doctrines and religious creeds . They are all full of meaning and vitality to those who ori- ginate them , and to the direct disciples of the originators . Their ...
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... experienced the full effect on the character , which belief in that creed ought to pro- duce in a mind thoroughly ... experience ; until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being . Then are seen ...
... experienced the full effect on the character , which belief in that creed ought to pro- duce in a mind thoroughly ... experience ; until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being . Then are seen ...
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... which everybody knows , which everybody repeats , or hears with acquiescence , which are received as truisms , yet of which most people first truly learn the meaning , when experience , generally of a THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION . 77.
... which everybody knows , which everybody repeats , or hears with acquiescence , which are received as truisms , yet of which most people first truly learn the meaning , when experience , generally of a THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION . 77.
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Page 24 - It is proper to state that I forego any advantage which could be derived to my argument from the idea of abstract right, as a thing independent of utility. I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being.
Page 107 - 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.
Page 134 - ... the fact of living in society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest. This conduct consists, first, in not injuring the interests of one another; or rather certain interests, which, either by express legal provision or by tacit understanding, ought to be considered as rights...
Page 21 - Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection.
Page 34 - ... its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation may be allowed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for being common.
Page 6 - Were I but capable of interpreting to the world one half the great thoughts and noble feelings which are buried in her grave, I should be the medium of a greater benefit to it, than is ever likely to arise from anything that I can write, unprompted and unassisted by her all but unrivalled wisdom.
Page 60 - A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the general principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced...
Page 38 - There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.
Page 161 - I consider noxious passes any one's lips, it invades all the " social rights " attributed to me by the Alliance. The doctrine ascribes to all mankind a vested interest in each other's moral, intellectual, and even physical perfection, to be denned by each claimant according to his own standard. Another important example of illegitimate interference with the rightful liberty of the individual, not simply threatened, but long since carried into triumphant effect, is Sabbatarian legislation. Without...