It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.... On Liberty - Page 6de John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 68 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or...backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...beings in the maturity of their faculties. "We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or...backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage. The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress are so... | |
| 1859 - 798 pages
...faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may tix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a slate to require being taken care of by others must be protected against their own actions as well... | |
| 1860 - 446 pages
....every variety of circumstances. Mr. Mill himself, in defining the range of his doctrine, " leaves out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its ' nonage' (p. 23). Liberty," he says, " as a principle, has no application... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below the age which the law may fix; as that of manhood...consideration those backward states of society in i'1. which the race itftlf may be considered as in ' j.ts nonage. The early difficulties in the way... | |
| Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877 - 618 pages
...sovereign" (p. 23, Amer. ed. of 1863). This principle applies only to mature persons, and also leaves " out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage." In such an age " a ruler full of the spirit of improvement is... | |
| 1894 - 916 pages
...beings in the maturity of their faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young persons below t was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland." FAME. But glory, t M* still in a state to require being taken caro '•f by others, must be protected against their fiwii... | |
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