 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.  The Church Herald - Page 2301869Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1859 - 207 pages
...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Qiuman 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 develope itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a i living... | |
 | john stuart mill - 1859
...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. 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 develops itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it. a living... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 68 pages
...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and... | |
 | Elizabeth C. T. Carne - Cities and towns - 1868 - 195 pages
...need another remedy. CHAPTEE III. RESTRAINT. MILL, in his work on liberty, speaks of human nature as " a tree which requires to grow and develop itself on...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." In most cases an illustration is not meant to be strictly correct, and therefore is not a fair subject... | |
 | William Holme Van Buren - Medicine - 1869 - 20 pages
...human nature is not a machine, to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work required of it, but a tree which requires to grow and develop...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." The want of so-called classical education is a disadvantage to the American student, which requires... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1869 - 193 pages
...model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develope itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and... | |
 | Education - 1873
...nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, hut a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inwird forces which make it a living thing." The English universities do not commit the error, so common... | |
 | Education - 1922
...much to the point when he says, "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do work prescribed for it, but a tree which requires...grow and develop itself on all sides, according to tendencies of the inward forces which make it a living thing." Hence in relation to education our attitude... | |
 | William Trant - Electronic book - 1884 - 188 pages
...also what manner of men they are that do it. . . . Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing." There would, in a purely co-operative state of society, be no struggle, no desire on the part of men... | |
 | 1888
...out, the red-haired man reads: " ' HuAN EXPOUNDER. man nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the itiward forces which make it a living thing. It is known that the bad workmen are decidedly of opinion... | |
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