John Stuart Mill Quote

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius or courage, becomes to a subsequent age, so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty is to imagine how such an idea could ever have appeared credible.


Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy (ed. 1866)


It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius ...

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius ...

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius ...

It often happens that the universal belief of one age, a belief from which no one was free or could be free without an extraordinary effort of genius ...