...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence ; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable...affairs as protection against political despotism.' Now the fallacy consists in assuming that there is some special abstract law or limit in this matter,...

...Calvinists. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective Opinion ; and to find that limit, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs as protection against political despotism. — On any matter not self-evident there are ninety-nine persons totally incapable of judging of it...

...harmony with its wants, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own. There is a limit to the legitimate interference of...affairs, as protection against political despotism." — p. 13. To determine this limit as nearly as may be done theoretically, is the work which Mr. Mill...

...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence ; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable...general terms, the practical question, where to place theu limit — how to make the fitting adjustment between individual independence and social control...

...ion with individual independence ; and to find j that limit, and maintain it against encroach1 ment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs,...practical question, where to place the limit — how to ' 'S Vs INTRODUCTORY. i / " > adjustment betjveen individ-Vl and social control — is a submake the...

...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence ; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable...affairs as protection against political despotism." He affirms " that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering...

...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence ; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable...affairs as protection against- political despotism." Public opinion then may become a powerful image of the first beast. A man may find it very hard to...

...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence, and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable...affairs, as protection against political despotism." The object of the treatise is, therefore, to show how far society may have the direct control of the...

...legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence, and to find that limit, and maintain it. against encroachment, is as indispensable...affairs, as protection against political despotism." The object of the treatise is, therefore, to show how far society may have the direct control of the...

...independence ; and to find ' that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indis' pensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection ' against political despotism." Mr. Mill indicates the nature of his solution in the following terms : ' The object of this essay is...