 Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.  On Liberty - 117. oldalszerző: John Stuart Mill - 1869 - 223 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | Norman Angell - 1919 - 60 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...the inward forces which make it a living thing."— Mill's "Liberty," p. 34 (Edition 1913). ment in political matters. Because upon that capacity for private... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 84 oldal
...exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which require*. to grow and develop itself on all sidesT^ according to the tendency of the inward forces which...intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an mtelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind find qimiilv mechanical adhesion toi^^5 oa... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1922 - 260 oldal
...model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides according to the tendency of the inward forces, which makes it a living thing." The function of the law is "to secure to each the greatest amount of liberty... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 88 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of...than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it. Tp n "°ftain extent it ia admitted, that pnr understanding UllUUld bu Ullf own : but there is not... | |
 | Charles Larrabee Street - 1926 - 186 oldal
..."Human nature is not a machine,—but a tree, which requires to grow and develops itself on all •ides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." " Writing of Mrs. Mill in the Autobiography he speaks of th. "spontaneous tendency" of her faculties,... | |
 | 1917 - 506 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which makes it a living thing." Ue may. therefore, well pause to consider whether .the benefits which will... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1917 - 988 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." Human nature is so constituted that we freely tolerate in ourselves what we condemn in others, and... | |
 | William E. Conklin - 1979 - 350 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing."6 For Mill, the ultimate end of man was, quoting from Wilhelm von Humbolt, the highest and most... | |
 | Donald Ahern, Robert Shenk - 1984 - 128 oldal
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.* Mill returned often to the idea that a free society must take care to produce worthy leaders. This... | |
 | Stewart Justman - 1991 - 206 oldal
...with individual cultivation and growth is inscribed in the organic metaphors of On Liberty, such as: Human nature is not a machine to be built after a...of the inward forces which make it a living thing. (OL 263) Neither is this a dead metaphor. Where Milton evinces a love of the sheer profusion of being... | |
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