Word: milles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This effort involves plans to hold open houses and forums with other groups at Harvard. "What's in the mill is inviting areas on campus, say dorms and entries, down to Room 13," Booker said...
...print the opinion of a "writer," it is just as significant, important and as democratic to note the experience and occupation of a cotton-mill worker in South Carolina or cowboy in Wyoming as of a former Justice Department official or retired businessman...
...Himmelfarb indicates, Mill was not only "deferential" to Harriet's every wish but "respectful of her every opinion, quick to reverse himself on any issue." In the dedication to On Liberty, he characterized Harriet as "the inspirer, and in part the author, of all that is best in my writings." And Himmelfarb sees enough of Harriet's single-minded radicalism in the essay to pronounce her a collaborator in its spirit if not in its prose...
Natural Feeling. Nobody reads Mill today. If people did, Himmelfarb warns, they would discover a man who is often in contradiction with Harriet's Mill, the author of On Liberty. This other Mill spoke suspiciously of the "desires and impulses" and the "natural feeling" that the Liberty Mill so glorified. Mill understood that human nature was so far from naturally good that the ultimate object of education should be "restraining discipline." The man to whom conformity, obedience and even law were dirty words could demand, in another mood, the retention of capital punishment and call for a penal code...
...short, a conservative Mill dwelt within the liberal Mill, and in fact tended to dominate everywhere but in On Liberty. Here, Himmelfarb insists that Mill, under the goading of the formidable Harriet, became more radical than he realized or wanted to be. In extending the common piety about freedom of speech to freedom of action, he committed an act of intellectual subversion for which the 20th century has paid with the impossible drunken dream of total freedom. Lord Acton's dictum -power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely-we have learned all too well. It is time...