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 of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned... Fraser's Magazine - Page 3811874Full view - About this book
| Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 452 pages
...family do not ask themselves — what do I prefer? or what would suit my character and disposition ? or what would allow the best and highest in me to...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature ? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Books and reading - 1909 - 484 pages
...family, do not ask themselves — what do I prefer ? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 500 pages
...family, do not ask themselves—what do I prefer ? or, what would suit my character and disposition? or, what would allow the best and highest in me to...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory.... | |
| Frank Morton McMurry - Study skill - 1909 - 348 pages
...it is not a true expression of self. This is the class of people that Mill describes in the words, " They like in crowds ; they exercise choice only among...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." 1 Such people 1 On Liberty, Chapter DL cannot perform the hard tasks required in study, because they... | |
| Frank Morton McMurry - Study skill - 1909 - 344 pages
...they have no nature to follow; their human capacities are withered and starved; they become Lacapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures, and are...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." l Such people 1 On Liberty, Chapter HI. cannot perform the hard tasks required in study, because they... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1913 - 88 pages
...: peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes : until by dint ol not following their own nature, they have no nature...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition of human nature ? It is so, on the Calvinistic theory.... | |
| Ordway Tead, Henry Clayton Metcalf - Personnel management - 1920 - 556 pages
...by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow; they become incapable of strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally...either opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly then- own." In other words, lack of interest breeds lack of interest, until a situation arises wherein... | |
| Lionel Danforth Edie - Industrial efficiency - 1922 - 452 pages
...by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow; they become incapable of strong wishes or native pleasures, and are generally...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own." In other words, lack of interest breeds lack of interest, until a situation arises wherein it may actually... | |
| 1910 - 1166 pages
...individuality.' He points out that the more social we become the more we tend to develop conventionality : Even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. [Mill acutely observes that] ' every extension of education promotes this tendency to uniformity,"... | |
| Colin Bingham - Reference - 1982 - 376 pages
...the yoke; even in what people do for pleasure, conformity is the first thing thought of: they live in crowds; they exercise choice only among things...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.' The essence of life is force, and force is the negation of liberty. JAMES FITZJAMES STEPHEN, 1873 We... | |
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