...principle of liberty, Mill tells us that it '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'.10 Now Mill thought that this time had been reached in all of the civilized societies of...

...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...Charlemagne, if they are so fortunate as to find one." Mill, On Liberty, CWM 18:224. 55. Mill goes on to say, "It is curious, withal, that the earliest known...

...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...but implicit obedience to an Akbar or a Charlemagne, it they are so fortunate as to find one. But as soon as mankind have attained the capacity of being...

...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...there is nothing for them but implicit obedience to an Akbar6 or a Charlemagne,7 if they are so fortunate as to find one. But as soon as mankind have attained...

...language of Mill: "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; despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their...

...effecting that end. LiIxetty, 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."1" As Sullivan and, in this volume, J. Joseph Miller demonstrate, Mill also differed still...

...it. "Liberty, as a principle," he noted, "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." 169 Minds must already be improved or cultivated to some degree before they are ready for this kind...

...sec. I, p. 15: "[Ljiberty, 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." For Mill, human progress becomes possible only when social and political conditions that allow for...

...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" (On Liberty 13-14). So easy to read through and miss the significance of—as generations of liberalarts...

...Bevormundete, Barbaren. „Liberty, as a principle, has no application to any state or things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion."12 Niemand darf zu seinem Besten gezwungen werden, „unless he is a child, or delirious,...