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" ... inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity... "
Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1]. - Page 442
1860
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 64

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1868 - 648 pages
...choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes: until, by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow. "Hence, " in this age the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom,...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 89

American periodicals - 1866 - 924 pages
...choice only among things commonly done; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until, by dint of not following their own nature, thoy have no nature to follow; their human capacities ate withered and starved ; they become incapable...
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liberty

john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...choice only among things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following...is it not, the desirable condition of human nature ? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory. According to that, the one great offence of man is Self-will....
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...choice only lamong things commonly don el -peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are 'shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following...— *"/ and are generally without either opinions or feel\ ings of home growth, or properly their ownTv Now 1 ° is this, or is it not, the desirable condition...
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Bentley's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1860 - 632 pages
...choice only among things commonly done: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes; until by dint of not following...this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature?'—P. 110. Such statements, so remarkably opposed to all that ordinarily meets us of judgments...
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The Rambler, a Catholic journal of home and foreign literature [&c.]. Vol.5 ...

1860 - 446 pages
...threatens to become the almost universal type of character ; even in amusements men " like in crowds ;" "until, by dint of not following their own nature,...their human capacities are withered and starved." Is such a state, he asks, desirable for a human being? It is so according to the Calvinistic theory,...
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The Philosophy and History of Civilisation

Alexander Alison - Civilization - 1860 - 476 pages
...equally with crimes, until by dint of changing their own nature they have no nature to follow. Thus man's capacities are withered and starved, they become incapable...wishes or native pleasures, and are generally without any opinions or feelings of home growth. Human nature being radically corrupt there is no redemption...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...choice only among things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint of not following...is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of hu-_ man nature ? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory. According to that, the one great offence of...
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...choice only among things commonly done : peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned "7 equally with crimes : until by dint of not following...withered and starved : they become incapable of any eraily without either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is...
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On Liberty, Issue 57

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint oi not following their own nature, they have no nature...home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or IB it not, the desirable condition of human nature ? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory. According...
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