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...circumstances, or by what was usually done by persons superior to them in station and circumstance. 'It does not occur to them to have any inclination,...pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of: they live in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity...

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...this essay, 'that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary' (p. 61). This emphatic condemnation of the bland conformity which results from attempting to suppress...

...that made England what it has been, and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline." 'The mind itself is bowed to the yoke; even in what...crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done.'9 There is much more to the same purpose which I need not quote. It would be easy to show from...

...this argument in On Liberty. Under the social tyranny of his day, he says, it doesn't occur to people "to have any inclination, except for what is customary....pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of" (OL 264-65). Mill's prose lacks the loft of Milton's winged words, but all the same it is striking...