 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...their turn, submit to a power superior to their individual will. ' Liberty,' says Mr. Mill himself, ' has no application to any state of things anterior...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion.' A sound public sentiment can arise only out of full and unfettered exchange of opinion, and we hail... | |
 | 1860 - 446 pages
...society in which the race itself may be considered as in its ' nonage' (p. 23). Liberty," he says, " as a principle, has no application to any state of...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. When the wisdom of the governors is far in advance of the wisdom of the governed, and the means do... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 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...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 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,...principle, has. no application to any state of things anterio\ia the time when '< mankind have become cap|ta{y of being improved by free and equal di^sCussionTJ... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothingfor them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they are... | |
 | 1866 - 520 pages
...subjects, but possessing 110 attributes of British citizens. 'Despotism,' says Mr. John Stuart Mill, 'is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they are... | |
 | English literature - 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...no application to any state of things anterior to :he time when mankind have become capable of leing improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...scorching fires of unmitigated ambition. Yet, to an Akbar or Charlemagne, it might appear that "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...their improvement, and the means justified by actually attaining that end," without their being chargeable with this narrow selfishness ; inasmuch as it is... | |
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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 and equal discussion. 
