 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
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...himself, over his own body and mind, the individual a sovereign. ' It is perhaps hardly necessary to say that this doctrine is meant to apply only to human...or of young persons below the age which the law may tix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still in a slate to require being taken care of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 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...faculties. We are not speaking of children, or of young per-, sons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood. Those who are still... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereig"n._ 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1868 - 728 pages
...imparting some uncertainty to both his argument and its issue. He tells us, for instance, that his doctrine is ' meant to apply only to human beings in ' the maturity of their faculties.' Children and young persons below the age fixed by law as that of manhood and womanhood are excluded... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1869 - 570 pages
...down in the * P- 21. \ P. 26. J P. 33. ยง P. 41. || P. 95. IT P. 24. ** P. 43. ft P. 45. previous page is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties. And that* " despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 620 pages
...deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1872 - 616 pages
...deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else 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... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 614 pages
...deter him, must be calculated to produce evil to some one else 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 Fitzjames Stephen - Equality - 1873 - 360 pages
...right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. He points out that * this doctrine is meant to apply only to human beings in the maturity of their faculties/ and that ' we may leave out of account those backward states of society in which the race itself may... | |
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