 | 1865 - 590 pages
...threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency of personal impulses and preferences. human capacities are withered and starved ; they become...or feelings of home growth, or properly their own. "To give any fair play to the nature of each, it is essential that different persons should be allowed... | |
 | Elizabeth C. T. Carne - Cities and towns - 1868 - 204 pages
...commonly done ; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes ; until, hy dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow."* There is, however, this to be said in favour of conventional restraints, that very often they are representative... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1869 - 258 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.... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 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 ? ys ma. CHARACTER. 33on einem STOenfdjen fcvjkcfyttjin fagen 511 fonnen, „ er fyat einen 6l}ara!ter,"... | |
 | Henry Attwell - Quotations - 1870 - 314 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 ? CHARACTER. J. s. Mm. 93on einem 2jienfcfyen fcfytecfytf)in fagen ju fonnen, „ er f)at einm Gfyarafter,"... | |
 | Sabine Baring-Gould - Christianity - 1870 - 430 pages
...choice only among things commonly done ; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes, until, by dint of not following...are generally without either opinions or feelings of home-growth, or properly their own." ' We will consider next the theocratic force arresting development.... | |
 | 1874 - 834 pages
...choice only among things commonly done ; peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes ; until by dint of not following...feelings of home growth, or properly their own. Now for some instances of the way in which this servility to the yoke of genteel custom tells in practical... | |
 | 1874 - 898 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 : thoir human capacities are withered and starved ; they become incapable of any strong wishes or native... | |
 | Walter Parke - 1875 - 270 pages
...mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind." " Peculiarity of taste, eccentricity of conduct, are shunned equally with crimes, until, by dint of not following their own nature, people have no nature to follow." " It is desirable, that in things which do not primarily concern... | |
 | George Vasey (miscellaneous writer.) - Liberty - 1877 - 200 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—their human capacities are withered and starved; they become incapable of any strong wishes... | |
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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... 
