 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...  On Liberty - Page 41by John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 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... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 630 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... | |
 | Daniel Greenleaf Thompson - Psychology - 1884 - 1102 pages
...evils of custom considered generally: ‘The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hinfirance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism...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... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 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 better than^ietomary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 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...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 as it... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 452 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...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 as it... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 452 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...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 as it... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 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...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 as it... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 500 pages
...that made England what it has been; animen of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing...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 as it... | |
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