...not mean that they choose what is customary, in preference to what suits their own inclination. 1t does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary' (111.6, pp. 264-5, emphasis added). Moreover, just as lack of free thought and discussion can result...

...description of a form of character which is both required for and fostered by autonomous action: [Ejven in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; ... peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes, until by dint of...

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...not ask themselves, what do I prefer? . . . They ask themselves, what is suitable to my position? ... It does not occur to them to have any inclination except for what is customary. . . . [C]onformity is the first thing thought of.45 Speaking of the role and the duty of society, Mill...

...people who are assured by rules. John Stuart Mill made telling comments on the topic of rule following: Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in...conformity is the first thing thought of; they like being in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity...

...do not mean 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. (Mill, Essays 264—65) Even though Carlyle advocates the very modes of renunciation that Mill thought...

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