Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded ; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few... Victoria Magazine - Page 3851865Full view - About this book
| 1866 - 924 pages
...abounded, and the amount of eccentricity has generally been proportional to the »mount of genius, rncnt»! vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That...experimentalists in the art of life, who broke through the tetters of convention, who had strong impulses, and determined on having a character of her own, who... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 pages
...abounded when and where strength of character has abounded ;-' and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius,...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. (T have said that it is important to give the freest scope possible to uncustomary things,... | |
| john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...abounded when and where strength of character has abounded ; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius,...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. I have said that it is important to give the freest scope possible to uncustomary things,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 pages
...society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage 9 " which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. - I have said that it is important to give the_ freest scope possible" to uncustomary things,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage 9 which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. have said that it is important to give the freest scope possible to uncustomary things, in... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...where strength of character has abounded ; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has general1" been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. I have said... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 202 pages
...of eccentricity in a society has always been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vitrour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. " The powers of man have not been exhausted.... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 386 pages
...amount of eccentricity in a society has always been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. " The powers of man have not been exhausted.... | |
| William Mathews - 1874 - 376 pages
...amount of eccentricity in a society has always been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. "The powers of man have not been exhausted.... | |
| William Mathews - 1877 - 462 pages
...of character has abounded ; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has always been proportioned to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral...now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time." CHAPTER VII. ORIGINALITY IN AIMS AND METHODS. "The powers of man have not been exhausted.... | |
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