 ... choice, wherever there are real diversities of aptitude, the great number will apply themselves to the things for which they are on the average fittest, and the exceptional course will only be taken by the exceptions. Either the whole tendency of...  Considerations on Representative Government - Page 171by John Stuart Mill - 1861 - 340 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - Philosophy - 1861 - 354 pages
...there be 1 any difference, women require it more than men, since, being physically weaker, they are more dependent on law and society for protection....nor their claim to it less irresistible, when not likely to make a bad use of it. Nobody pretends to think that women would make a bad use of the suffrage.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Representative government and representation - 1875 - 382 pages
...that, under complete freedom of choice, wherever there are real diversities of aptitude, the greater number will apply themselves to the things for which...are, and will be all their lives, nothing else than laborers in corn-fields or manufactories ; but this does not render the suffrage less desirable for... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1882 - 230 pages
...awakened interest in improvement, what formerly was the work of centuries, often requires only years." " Men, as well as women, do not need political rights...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." This should be — " Men, as well as women, need political rights, not in order that they may govern,... | |
 | 1883 - 528 pages
...awakened interest in improvement, what formerly was the work of centuries, often requires only years." " Men as well as women do not need political rights...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned ; " this should be, " Men as well as women need political rights, not in order that they may govern,... | |
 | Sydney Buxton - Great Britain - 1884 - 240 pages
...they "require the protection of the suffrage to secure them from an abuse of that authority ; " " they do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." 3. — That though there may be truth in the assertion that a married woman is represented through... | |
 | Sydney Charles Buxton (1st earl.) - 1885 - 282 pages
...they "require the protection of the suffrage to secure them from an abuse of that authority; " " they do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." 8. — (a) That the argument that the male vote, on some special occasion, would be swamped by the... | |
 | Sydney Buxton - Great Briain - 1892 - 502 pages
...affecting them would be modified or swept away. secure them from an abuse of that authority ; " " they do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." 3. — (a) That the argument that the male vote, on some special occasion, would be swamped by the... | |
 | Sydney Buxton - Great Briain - 1892 - 508 pages
...they "require the protection of the suffrage to secure them from an abuse of that authority;" " they do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." 8.—(a) That the argument that the male vote, on some special occasion, would be swamped by the female,... | |
 | William Jay Youmans - Science - 1897 - 902 pages
...arbitrarily or unjustly exercised. They anticipated in action the aphorism of John Stuart Mill, that " men do not need political rights in order that they may...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned " ; for, as was truly said by Guizot, " a constitution is only a device for turning ordinary mortals... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English literature - 1896 - 538 pages
...Mill, who was too intellectually sincere to deceive himself or flatter others, has said very truly that "men, as well as women, do not need political rights...govern, but in order that they may not be misgoverned." And that is why people demand a constitution ; it is to enable them to control a king who does not... | |
| |
