...Mill's polemic against the 'common modes of thinking' in society and his assertion that 'where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress'.3 But for the novelist principles are fraught with complications different from those that...

...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...chief ingredient of individual and social progress. * * * He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need...

...course, through the vehicle of custom: 'Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions and customs of other people are the rule of conduct, there...chief ingredient of individual and social progress' (1859a, p. 261). The principle of aesthetics, then, exhorts any person to improve himself in the sense...

...weakness of the pastoral mode of redemption where love is heroic action. As Mill says, "Where not the person's own character but the traditions or customs...chief ingredient of individual and social progress" (On Liberty, 120). In Angel, it is the Arnoldian character of abstract beauty that prevents his own...

...others rather than being freely chosen and expressive of the character of the agent: Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...chief ingredient of individual and social progress. ... to conform to custom, merely as custom, does not educate or develope in him any of the qualities...

...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...people are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one ol' the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and...

...beliefs, and conceptions of the good adopted by different individuals, and assume that "where not the person's own character but the traditions or customs...chief ingredient of individual and social progress," namely, the element of unimpeded individual development. 9 Nationalists stress the inescapable social...

...in things which do not primarily concern others, individuality should assert itself. Where, not the person's own character, but the traditions or customs...are the rule of conduct, there is wanting one of the principle ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and social progress....

...followed from it." In On Liberty, liberalism became the defense of "individuality," which Mill hailed as "one of the principal ingredients of human happiness, and quite the chief ingredient of individual and human progess. ... In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more...

...higher faculties are "improved by being used" and cannot develop under conditions "[w]here not the person's own character but the traditions or customs of other people are the rule of conduct" (OL III 26 1 ). It does not follow, as Gray would have it, that choice from character requires people...