 ... the source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion...  On Liberty - Page 41by John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1895 - 404 pages
...moral be!ing, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone There must be discussion, to show how expe | rience ia to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1904 - 344 pages
...gridiron down the immense grinning gulf of a mouth ! THACKERAY in FG Stephens's George Cruikshank p. 83. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. MILL On Liberty ch. 2, p. 40. Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous musick wake... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - English language - 1904 - 352 pages
...gridiron down the immense grinning gulf of a mouth! THACKERAY in PQ Stephens's George Cruikshank p. 83. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. MILL On Liberty ch. 2, p. 40. Hear how the birds, on ev'ry blooming spray, With joyous u in sick wake... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1907 - 814 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, «ithout comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 pages
...a moral being, namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and va(ue, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 pages
...to it, in a specific case, may be a proper subject of punishment, but only if an overt act has 218 Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...moral being ; namely, that his errors are corrigible. He is capable of rectifying his mistakes, by discussion and experience. Not by experience alone....their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
 | Norman Angell - Draft - 1919 - 60 pages
...and on no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgment, depending on the one property, that... | |
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