 The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people; and the spirit of liberty, in so far...  The Chicago City Manual - Page 2by Chicago (Ill.). Bureau of Statistics - 1914 - 203 pagesFull view - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals. The progressive principle, however, in either shape,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally...opponents of improvement; but the only unfailing and perma-_^_nent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals. The ' progressive principle, however, in either shape,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally...temporarily with the opponents of improvement ; but the xmly unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible... | |
 | J. Arthur Partridge - Democracy - 1866 - 446 pages
...stop? When it ceases to possess Individuality. . . . The only unfailing and permanent source of its improvement is Liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement, as there are Individuals."—Mill on Liberty, pp. 130, 114, 126, 127. " We... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...merely traditional. There is now scarcely any outlet for energy in this country except business/ ' The only unfailing and permanent source of improvement...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals/ Individuality, however, is at a discount with us,... | |
 | Exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 472 pages
...mentions an important advantage accruing to society from the use of individual liberty, saying : — " The only unfailing and permanent source of improvement...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals." In opposition to this, Mr. Stephen quotes from an... | |
 | An exile from France - Communism - 1876 - 466 pages
...mentions an important advantage accruing to society from the use of individual liberty, saying : — " The only unfailing and permanent source of improvement...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals." In opposition to this, Mr. Stephen quotes from an... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...forcing improvements OF WELL-BEING. 41 on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it resists such attempts, may ally itself locally...opponents of improvement ; but the only unfailing anil permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pages
...attempts, may ally itself locally an! temporarily with the opponents of improvements; but the on'y unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty,...since by it there are as many possible independent centres of improvement as there are individuals. The progressive principle however, in either shape,... | |
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