 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 6by John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 68 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1873 - 1004 pages
...action. The principle is one admitted by its author to be good only for a superior state of society — to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties: only practical when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Nevertheless... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. it is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...are not speaking of children, or of young persons tclow the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...himself, over his own body nid mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say n your favors, swims with fins of lead, And hews down...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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1895 - 404 pages
...hardly necessary to say that this doctrine isjtteant to apply only to human beings in. theitaaturity of their faculties., We are not speaking of children,...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | William Sharp McKechnie - Individualism - 1896 - 476 pages
...to apply at all to a numerous and important class of cases. "It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties."8 The simplicity of the one principle has already vanished, and the certainty is following... | |
 | John Mackinnon Robertson, G. Astor Singer - 1897 - 708 pages
...application of the principle altogether : — " It does not apply to children ", he says, " nor to young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of the adult. Nor does it apply to backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 458 pages
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Justice - 1900 - 414 pages
...proves. Mill, in fact, recognizes this himself, for he says: " It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood." Nor does it apply, he says, to the backward races. " Despotism," he declares, " is a legitimate mode... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter, William Tenney Brewster - English prose literature - 1904 - 508 pages
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
 | James MacKaye - Happiness - 1906 - 556 pages
...and he is forced to qualify it immediately. Thus, he says: " It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a state to require being taken care of by others, must be protected against their own actions as... | |
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