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" The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that... "
Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 35
1901
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Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government

Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...reluctantly, and grumblingly in its wake."* And, as Mr. Mill well says; (Essay on " Liberty," p. 126.) "The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...liberty, or that of progress or improvement." The party affecting reform, being also governed by their notions of utility, most frequently accept concessions...
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On Liberty, Issue 57

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...that made England what it has been ; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...antagonism to that disposition to aim at something betterthan customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...that made England what it has been ; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, ibr it ma*,' aim at forcing improvements OF WELL-BEING. 41 on an unwilling people ; and the spirit...
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A System of Psychology, Volume 2

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 632 pages
...thought.' * I will now refer by the following passage to the evils of custom considered generally: 'The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...to circumstances, the spirit of liberty or that of progressive improvement. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim...
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A System of Psychology, Volume 2

Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - 1884 - 634 pages
...passage to the evils of cost-' -re considered generally : ' The despotism of custom is everywhr--:v the standing hindrance to human advancement, being-...to circumstances, the spirit of liberty or that of progressive improvement. The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim...
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The Popular Faith Unveiled

Herbert Junius Hardwicke - Christianity - 1884 - 308 pages
...than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being m unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called,...
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The Greatest Works of the Greatest Authors, Ancient and Modern ...

Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...that made England what it has been; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. sophizing horses, nothing but such circumstantial...the imagination. Of all the poets who have introduce than^ietomary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress...
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Almond of Loretto: Being the Life and a Selection from the Letters of Hely ...

Robert Jameson Mackenzie - High school principals - 1906 - 466 pages
...pages of our philosophers. 'The despotism of custom,' writes Mill in his accepted work on Liberty, ' is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement,...called, according to circumstances, the spirit of l1berty, or that of progress or improvement.' And again: ' The progressive principle in either shape,...
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John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty

John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 pages
...what it has been; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotismjjf custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism -ito ttiat disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances,...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1913 - 88 pages
...antagonism to that disposition to aim at somethingbetterthan customary, which is called, accoixling to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of...improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it ma<v aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people ; and the spirit of liberty, in so far as it...
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