...our children, because chances are, they will strive to grow up to be like those people. One man said, "The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it." Ralph knew that example teaches without words and that example is one of the most potent of instructors....

...arresting portrayal of individual freedoms ("All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"; "The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it" (1972:123,170), but was he not, perhaps, naive? Did not Durkheim undercut Mill in his insistence on...

..."Any society . . . which is not improving, is deteriorating."57 The value of the State, Mill argues, in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it; and a State which postpones the interests of their mental expansion and elevation to a little more...

...activate the intellectual resources of all the members of our species. THOMAS WEST VERSUS THOMAS JEFFERSON The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) While West considers Thomas Jefferson to be one of the Founders whose...

...denouncing, it makes them work in chains or bids them stand aside and does their work instead of them. The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. A state that postpones the interests of their mental expansion in favor of a somewhat better administration...