 | Arminianism - 1876 - 1204 pages
...in vain." (Enigmas of Life, pp. 6, 6.) And Mr. Mill is entranced with the same dazzling vision ; " No one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...which, as things now are, cannot be obviated, and often cannot be in any material degree mitigated. Yet no one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Decision making - 1863 - 120 pages
...which, as things now are, cannot be obviated, and often cannot be in any material degree mitigated. Yet no one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
 | English periodicals - 1863 - 532 pages
...considerations of their advantage than their ease and enjoyment. In a noble passage, Mr. Mill observes that " all the grand sources of human " suffering are, in a great degree — many " of them, almost entirely — conquerable " by human care and effort ; and though " the removal is grievously... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...as things now are, cannot be obviated, and often cannot be, in any material degree, mitigated. Yet no one, whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration,...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...which, as things now are, cannot be obviated, and often cannot be in any material degree mitigated. Yet no one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...evils of the world are in themselves removable"; but when he goes on to say, in the same sentence; "and will, if human affairs continue to improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits" ; he gives no reason for this assertion, which has no sanction from anything that he has said before,... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 pages
...and far more than it is in the nature of things to effect. Mr. Mill is quite right in saying, (p. 21) that "most of the great positive evils of the world are in themselves removable"; but when he goes on to say, in the same sentence ; " and will, if human affairs continue to improve,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1871 - 136 pages
...which, as things now are, cannot be obviated, and often cannot 'be in any material degree mitigated. Yet no one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration can doubt that most of the great positive evils j>f the world are (in themselves removable, and will, if human affairs continue to improve, bein the... | |
 | A. Elley Finch - Philosophy - 1872 - 136 pages
...so very remotely distant. 1 The forcible language of the 17th Article of the Church of England. 2 ' No one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration...improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. Poverty, in any sense implying suffering, may be completely extinguished by the wisdom of society,... | |
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Yet no one whose opinion deserves a moment's consideration can doubt that most of the great positive evils of the world are in themselves removable, and will, if human affairs continue to improve, be in the end reduced within narrow limits. 
