“ All phenomena of society are phenomena of human nature, generated by the action of outward circumstances upon masses of human beings ”
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 | action society |
| Date | 1843 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/27942/27942-h/27942-h.html |
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“But although, in so complicated a class of subjects, it is impossible to lay down practical maxims of universal application, it does not follow that the phenomena do not conform to universal laws.
§ 2. All phenomena of society are phenomena of human nature, generated by the action of outward circumstances upon masses of human beings; and if, therefore, the phenomena of human thought, feeling, and action are subject to fixed laws, the phenomena of society can not but conform to fixed laws, the consequence of the preceding. There is, indeed, no hope that these laws, though our knowledge of them were as certain and as complete as it is in astronomy, would enable us to predict the history of society, like that of the celestial appearances, for thousands of years to come.”
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