...against external injury. For the same reason we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage.'—Eftay on Liberty, chap. i. Mr. Mill's exceptions form a very large class. Often as we have...

...greatest philosophers and political economists of England, says very clearly : " The early difficulties of spontaneous progress are so great, that there is...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...

...against external injury. For the same reason we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage.'—Essay on Liberty, chap. i. Mr. Mill's exceptions form a very large class. Often as we have...

...beings in the maturity of their faculties/and that ' we may leave out of account those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage/ He then disclaims any advantage which could be derived to his ' argument from the idea of abstract...

...beings in the maturity of their faculties,'and that ' we may leave out of account those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage.' Me then disclaims any advantage which could be derived to his ' argument from the idea of abstract...

...persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood," but " those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage." "Liberty, as a principle," he says, " has no application to any state of things anterior to the time...

...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 warranted in the use of any expedients...

...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 warranted in the use of any expedients...

...of the common people that he proposed to make many thousands of them slaves."—(Lord MACAULAY.) 4 "The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous...ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedient that will attain an end perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a...

...of the common people that he proposed to make many thousands of them slaves."—(Lord MACAULAY.) * " The early difficulties in the way of spontaneous progress...ruler full of the spirit of improvement is warranted in the use of any expedient that will attain an end perhaps otherwise unattainable. Despotism is a...