 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...part of what everybody says in defence of his opinion, is what he intends as a reply to antagonists. It is the fashion of the present time to disparage...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself ! If there are any persons who contest a received... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...again systematically trained to it, there will be few great thinkers, and a low general aver„ age of intellect, in any but the mathematical and physical...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself ! (if there are any persons who contest a received... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...part of what everybody says in defence of his opinion, is what he intends as a reply to antagonists. It is the fashion of the present time to disparage...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself! If there are any persons who contest a received... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...highly ; and until people are again systematically trained to it, there will be few great thinks ers, and a low general average of intellect, in any but...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself! If there are any persons who contest a received... | |
 | Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...either had forced upon him by others, or gone through of himself, the same mentid process which wonld have been required of him in carrying on an active controversy with opponents." There are dangers, however, to which debaters are exposed, and it wonld he unwise to shut our eyes... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophy - 1865 - 750 pages
...knowledge, except so far as he has either had forced upon him by others, or gone through of himself, tho same mental process which would have been required...carrying on an active controversy with opponents." • See Plato, Republic, vii. 518, B, C, about ircutfla, as developing r^v ivovffav iKaffTOu Si'fa.uip... | |
 | George Grote - Philosophy, Ancient - 1885 - 502 pages
...will be few great thinkers, and a low general average of intellect, in any but the mathematical ;md physical departments of speculation. On any other...carrying on an active controversy with opponents." l See Plato, Republic, vii. 518, В, С, about ircuSeia, as developing T^V evovtrav fito-mov ovvajiiv... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Creation - 1887 - 606 pages
...result, but as a means to attaining .any positive knowledge or conviction worthy the name, it can not be valued too highly ; and until people are again...carrying on an active controversy with opponents." Mr. Grote, in his admirable work on "Plato and the other Companions of Socrates," has the following... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1895 - 404 pages
...knowledge, except so far as he has cither had forced upon him by others, or gone through of him •elf, the same mental process which would have been required...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself! If there are any persons who contest a received... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 500 pages
...part of what everybody says in defence of his opinion, is what he intends as a reply to antagonists. It is the fashion of the present time to disparage...but so difficult, to create, how worse than absurd is it to forego, when spontaneously offering itself ! If there are any persons who contest a received... | |
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On any other subject no one's opinions deserve the name of knowledge, except so far as he has either had forced upon him by others, or gone through of himself, the same mental process which would have been required of him in carrying on an active controversy... 
