...refinement, the alternative would be to reduce the entire community to the lowest. The whole embarrassment on this point exists in the difficulty of making men...intercourse must regulate itself, independently of institutions, with the exception that the latter, while they withhold no natural, bestow no factitious...

...the last resort, the legal power to frame its laws according to its wants," and further on he adds: " There is the safe and just governing rule, already...rights of others to be equally judges for themselves." These are essentially the foundations of Mill's principle, formulated twenty years later, " that the...

...conscious of the doubtful position he himself occupies; thus establishing the very claims he affects to deny, by letting his jealousy of it be seen. Manners,...intercourse must regulate itself, independently of institutions, with the exception that the latter, while they withold no natural, bestow no factitious...

...conscious of the doubtful position he himself occupies ; thus establishing the very claims he affects to deny, by letting his jealousy of it be seen. Manners,...intercourse must regulate itself, independently of institutions, with the exception that the latter, while they withold no natural, bestow no factitious...