...strong case, not on those who resist, but on those who recommend, government interference. Lcdsserfaire, in short, should be the general practice: every departure...the cases to which it is most manifestly applicable, lias heretofore been infringed by governments, future ages will probably have difficulty in crediting....

...limits of the laissez-faire or non- interference principle}, ita principium statuit : » Laissez-faire in short should be the general practice; every departure...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil." XXXII. Recte idem, pag. 539, problema de alendis in civitate pauperibus ita posuit: »how to give the...

...means of effecting a greater public good ;" because, as he writes in another place, " laisser faire, in short, should be the general practice; every departure...unless required by some great good, is a certain eviL"* Precisely, as a surgeon says, if a broken leg cannot be cured by splints, and bandages, and time, why...

...self-control; and the natural stimulus to these is the difficulties of life." Again : " Laisser-faire should be the general practice : every departure from...unless required by some great good, is a certain evil." Mr. Mill proceeds to detail some of the departures from the general practice which he seems to consider...

...governmental intervention; he would, in a word, have remembered the doctrine of Mr. Mill upon state interference, "laisserfaire, in short, should be the...every departure from it, unless required by some great public good, is a certain evil." Strike off the restrictions upon leasing which lurk in old settlements...

...would, in a word, have remembered the doctrine of Mr. Mill upon state interference, " laisser faire, in short, should be the general practice; every departure from it, unless required by some great public good, is a certain evil." Strike off the restrictions upon leasing which lurk in old settlements...

...of restricting to the narrowest compass the intervention of a public authority in the business of a community, and few will dispute the more than sufficiency...required by some great good, is a certain evil."* Such are the recorded opinions of one of our most distinguished writers on political economy, and these...

...few will dispute the more than sufficiency of these reasons, to throw, in every instance, the burden of making out a strong case, not on those who resist,...infringed by governments, future ages will probably bave difficulty in crediting. Some idoa maybe formed of it from the description by M. Dnnoycr* of the...

...protection has an innate tendency to annihilate individual energies. Mill writes : " Letting alone should be the general practice; every departure from...required by some great good, is a certain evil." The eminent Spanish economist, Sefior Prendergast, puts it thus : "If you lose confidence in the natural...

...— not on those who resist — but on those who recommend government interference. Letting alone, in short, should be the general practice ; every departure...it, unless required by some great good, is a certain cvil. (' Political Economy,' JS Mill, bk. v. chap, xi.) * If we were to partition out England into...