Chapter 1, paragraph 10
Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.Read in Books4Free →
Limits of the Doctrine: Children and 'Backward' Societies
From On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
Mill notoriously restricts the harm principle to 'human beings in the maturity of their faculties' and to societies capable of being improved by free discussion, excluding children and so-called barbarians.
Chapter 1, paragraph 10
Exclusion of children and 'young persons below the age which the law may fix as that of manhood or womanhood.'
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