...individual will. ' Liberty,' says Mr. Mill himself, ' 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.' A sound public sentiment can arise only out of full and unfettered exchange of opinion, and we hail...

...effecting 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 and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they...

...effecting 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 and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they...

...(p. 23). Liberty," he says, " 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. When the wisdom of the governors is far in advance of the wisdom of the governed, and the means do...

...effecting 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 and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they...

...effecting 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 and equal discussion. Until then there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, if they are...

...category of disqualification. These last are best managed by despotism. Liberty becomes a right only when ' mankind have become capable of ' being improved by free and equal discussion.' Until then an Akbar, or a Charlemagne, is the fittest ruler. Now, there can be no reasonable objection...

...state of society — to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties: only practical when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Nevertheless the general principle is so far true, that it should be the aim of Government and society...

...nonage." " Liberty, as a principle," he says, " 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." (p. 6.) I am not concerned to insist upon the difficulty of reconciling these exceptions with the general...

...societies. Mill says, "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." If we take this strictly, it limits the concession of liberty much more than most people would care...