If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec
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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.John Mill
No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it
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The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism
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