 The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or...  On Liberty - Page 29by John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1860 - 452 pages
...rule for the sake of any particular good consequence they may expect. It has been said with truth " Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other...compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." Each person is more interested in his own moral and physical well-being than any other can be ; consequently,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1860 - 880 pages
...rule for the sake of any particular good consequence they may expect. It has been said with truth '• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other...seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to lire as seems good to the rest." Each person is more interested in his own moral and physical well-being... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1863 - 478 pages
...good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own...compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." -p. 27. The position is a comprehensive one certainly, but it need not excite the alarm of the most... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...so long as we do not | S attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.j Each is the proper ; guardian of his own health, whether...live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each«J| to live as seems good to the rest. V / Though this doctrine is anything but new, \ and, to.... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1873 - 752 pages
...good in onr own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own...compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." Mill on Liberty, Introduc. court of justice in this country would be warranted in assuming that the... | |
 | David Kay - 1873 - 242 pages
...education of a moral nature in the discrimination of weeds from flowers." — (Rev. PAXTON HOOD.) " Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good unto themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."— (JS MILL.) * " The... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - France - 1874 - 552 pages
...we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it." It means that " each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental or spiritual." It means that " the individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - France - 1874 - 664 pages
...we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it." It means that " each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily or mental or spiritual." It means that " the individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Allegiance - 1875 - 250 pages
...own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts toobtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual." That is, no immoral doctrines, poems, novels, plays, conduct, acts, may be visited by the reprobation... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way,' &c.; and that ' each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual,' he adds : ' Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves,... | |
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