...everyone, in exercising their tastes and deciding upon a course of conduct, thinks first of conformity; "until by dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow." Deprivation of a voice in the conversation of justice is not the work here of the scoundrel (so I am...

..."clipped into pollards. . . . " 37 Their minds having been "bowed to the yoke" of custom, individuals "exercise choice only among things commonly done:...follow: their human capacities are withered and starved. . . . " 38 Like Hobhouse, Mill believes that we are better off suffering each others' eccentricities...

...have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke . . . until by dint of not following their own nature they have no nature to follow.36 I am contending, then, that Mill's fear of the loss of liberty in modem society points to...

...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...opinions or feelings of home growth, or properly their own.5 In Mill's scheme the highest levels of policymaking would take place in a nationally representative...

...The result, paradoxically, is the negation of that personal development encouraged by democracies. We "become incapable of any strong wishes or native pleasures,...without either opinions or feelings of home growth." Mill ends: "Now is this, or is it not, the desirable condition?" Undesirable, of course; yet Stanley...

...the majority), he stated as follows: In whatever people do conformity is the first thing thought of; they like in crowds; they exercise choice only among...following their own nature, they have no nature to follow. 53 It was not that men refused to make original choices out of hypocritical calculation. It was rather...

...to do. As Mill has already reminded us 'they exercise choice only among things commonly done . . . until by dint of not following their own nature they...their human capacities are withered and starved'. This produces a very different set of moral concerns from those usually reflected in our moral and...

...least, is a curious way to conceive the moral life of human beings. Conformists are miserable creatures: "By dint of not following their own nature, they have no nature to follow."60 But what does it mean to follow one's own nature? Elsewhere, in a brilliant essay, Mill...

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