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" ... the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion... "
On Liberty - Page 41
by John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 223 pages
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liberty

john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that...
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Bentley's Quarterly Review, Volume 2

1860 - 632 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience; not by experience alone....argument; but facts and arguments, to produce any effect upon the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without...
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Bentley's quarterly review. [with variant title-leaf to vol. 1]., Volume 2

1860 - 634 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors arc corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience ; not by experience alone....There must be discussion, to show how experience is to ue interpreted. AVrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument ; but facts and...
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The Philosophy and History of Civilisation

Alexander Alison - Civilization - 1860 - 476 pages
...who is capable. — Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument ; but these, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it, for very few facts are able to tell their own story without comments to bring out their meaning. Popular...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 5

Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...rational assurance of being right. ADVANTAGES OF DISCUSSION. MAN is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and arguments ; but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it....
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discus- 1 sion and experience. Not by experience alone. ; There must be discussion, to show how expe- \ rience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions \ and practices gradually yield to fact and argument...
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On Liberty, Issue 57

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, oí human judgment, depending ои the one property, that...
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Graduated exercises for translation into German, extr. from Engl. authors ...

Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...his hovel to die! Mncaitlay. ADVANTAGES OP DISCUSSION. Man is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and arguments: but facts and arguments, to produce any etfect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very...
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The Christian Witness and Congregational Magazine, Volume 6

Congregational churches - 1870 - 716 pages
...we must trust our own judgment or the judgment of fallible men. Now, as it has been well observed, "Very few facts are able to tell their own story without comments to bring out their meaning." And we are persuaded that this is emphatically the case with the facts of our Lord's life....
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On Liberty

John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion ;md experience. Not by experience .'ilone. There must be discussion, to . show how experience...their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that...
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