the use of any expedients that will attain an end, perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end.... On Liberty - Page 6by John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
| Bertalan Szemere - Hungary - 1860 - 250 pages
...choice of means for overcoming them ; and a ruler, full of the spirit of improvement, is warrantedin the use of any expedients that will attain an end perhaps otherwise unattainable."* And this certainly is the case. What would England have been without Elizabeth, without Cromwell, without... | |
| English literature - 1866 - 566 pages
...subjects, but possessing no attributes of British citizens. 'Despotism,' says Mr. John Stuart Mill, 'is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to :he time when mankind have become capable of leing improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
| 1866 - 520 pages
...subjects, but possessing no attributes of British citizens. 'Despotism,' says Mr. John Stuart Mill, 'is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
| Charles Savile Roundell - Great Britain - 1866 - 58 pages
...notable instance of a profound depravation of public morality. -J- ' Liberty,' says Mr. JS Mill, ' 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. Until then,... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...states of society in which the race itself may be considered in its -non-age.' Despotism, he says, ' is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
| James Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 372 pages
...states of society in which the race itself may be considered in its nonage.' Despotism, he says, ' is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...no application to any state of things anterior to the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...considered as in its nonage." In such an age " a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end...government in dealing with barbarians, provided the * The reader may compare to his advantage with this exposition of Mr. Mill's views, Mr. Stephen's "... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - Political science - 1877 - 618 pages
...considered as in its nonage." In such an age " a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedients that will attain an end...government in dealing with barbarians, provided the • * The reader may compare to his advantage with this exposition of Mr. Mill's views, Mr. Stephen's... | |
| David Kay - Education - 1883 - 636 pages
...overcoming them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedient that will attain an end perhaps otherwise unattainable....and the means justified by actually effecting that end."—(JS MILL.) "As a general rule, despotism was before republicanism, and bondage before freedom."—(Anon.)... | |
| David Kay - Education - 1883 - 564 pages
...overcoming them ; and a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedient that will attain an end perhaps otherwise unattainable....and the means justified by actually effecting that end."—(JS MILL.) "As a general rule, despotism was before republicanism, and bondage before freedom."—(Anon.)... | |
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