The demand that all other people shall resemble
ourselves grows by what it feeds on. If
resistance waits till life is reduced nearly to
one uniform type, all deviations from that type will come to be considered
impious, immoral, even monstrous and contrary to nature. Mankind speedily become unable to conceive
diversity when they have been for some time unaccustomed to see it.[1]
J.S. Mill, On Liberty (1859)
[1] John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, ed. Gertrude Himmelfarb
(Toronto: Penguin, 1985), p. 140. These
are the last three sentences to Chapter III.
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