 It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke : even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only...  How to Study and Teaching how to Study - Page 261by Frank Morton McMurry - 1909 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Jack Crittenden - 1992 - 241 pages
...is bowed to the yoke; even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among...opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.5 In Mill's scheme the highest levels of policymaking would take place in a nationally representative... | |
 | English Institute - 1993 - 144 pages
...The result, paradoxically, is the negation of that personal development encouraged by democracies. We "become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures,...without either opinions or feelings of home growth." Mill ends: "Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition?" Undesirable, of course; yet Stanley... | |
 | César Graña - 1994 - 236 pages
...the majority), he stated as follows: In whatever people do conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow. 53 It was not that men refused to make original choices out of hypocritical calculation. It was rather... | |
 | Victor J. Seidler - 1994 - 260 pages
...to do. As Mill has already reminded us 'they exercise choice only among things commonly done . . . until by dint of not following their own nature they...their human capacities are withered and starved'. This produces a very different set of moral concerns from those usually reflected in our moral and... | |
 | Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 pages
...least, is a curious way to conceive the moral life of human beings. Conformists are miserable creatures: "By dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow."60 But what does it mean to follow one's own nature? Elsewhere, in a brilliant essay, Mill... | |
 | Ronald Terchek - 1997 - 306 pages
...According to Mill, the members of commercial society "exercise choice only among things commonly done . . . until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no natures to follow." 26 With Mill's reading, modern freedom is full of irony. No longer bounded by powerful... | |
 | Eldon J. Eisenach - 2010 - 349 pages
...to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke ... until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow. 36 I am contending, then, that Mill's fear of the loss of liberty in modern society points to two distinguishable... | |
 | Carl Schneider - 1998 - 346 pages
...of these weak piping times of peace to ask not "what do I prefer?" but "what is usually done ...?... until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow . . . ,"153 These ideas influence doctors and patients not only because they have an estimable lineage... | |
 | Gerald F. Gaus - 1999 - 268 pages
...describes people who have been forced to conform to society's patterns of the proper way of living: by dint of not following their own nature, they have...opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.13 According to these first two claims, then, people possess unique natures; to suppress these... | |
 | Joseph Hamburger - 2001 - 260 pages
...part."'1 There was a "low moral tone [in] English society."52 Human nature among the English was stunted: "by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow" (265). Clearly he did not exaggerate in telling Comte, "I have stood for quite some time in a kind... | |
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