...elucidate this question, and he contends with great force and reason that " one very simple principle is entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion or control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion...

...irritating or degrading percmptoriness on those who wish to have, or ought to have, opinions of their own. ' The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, an entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion...

...which they consistently adhere, as to what things are fit to * be done by a government. And it seems to me that, in consequence of this absence of rule or principle, one side is at present as often , I wrong as the other ; the interference of gov•\ j ernment is, with about equal frequency, imVI...

...sovereign.' The above passage contains the essence of what Mr. Mill describes as ' one very simple principle entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society...individual in the way of compulsion and control.' Now, without giving an absolute adhesion to this position taken by Mr. Mill in the above passage, which...

...out his entire plan. Now, after many pages he tells us the objectof his Essay. "It* is," he says, " to assert one very simple principle as entitled to govern ABSoLUTELY the dealing of society with the individual, in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used...

...offer. I do cot believe that the state of our knowledge is such as to enable us to enunciate any ' very simple principle as entitled to govern absolutely...individual in the way of compulsion and control.' We must proceed in a far more cautious way, and confine ourselves to such remarks as experience suggests...

...indifference, and that is also an evil. He then goes on to assert that one very simple principle ought to govern absolutely the dealings of society with...the individual in the way of compulsion and control, — viz., that self-protection is the sole end for which mankind arc warranted individually or collectively...

...It may be well to restate it for fear that I may appear to be arguing with an imaginary opponent. * The object of this essay is to assert one very simple principle as entitled to govern absolutely all the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means...

...which they consistently adhere, as to what things are fit to be done by a government. And it seems to me that in consequence of this absence of rule or principle, one side is ft present as often wrong as the other; the interference of government is, with about equal frequency,...

...harmony with its ways, and compels all characters to fashion themselves on the model of its own. * * * The object of this essay is to assert one very simple...the individual in the way of compulsion and control. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively,...