“ one individual has not a vestige of a belief which another deems to be absolutely inherent in humanity. ”
John Stuart Mill, A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (1843). copy citation
| Author | John Stuart Mill |
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| Source | A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive |
| Topic | humanity belief |
| Date | 1843 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html |
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“The things which it has been supposed that nobody could possibly help believing, are innumerable; but no two generations would make out the same catalogue of them. One age or nation believes implicitly what to another seems incredible and inconceivable; one individual has not a vestige of a belief which another deems to be absolutely inherent in humanity. There is not one of these supposed instinctive beliefs which is really inevitable. It is in the power of every one to cultivate habits of thought which make him independent of them. The habit of philosophical analysis”
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