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Only individual mental superiority can justify counting one person's opinion as more than one
Drawn from what John Stuart Mill said
What John Stuart Mill actually said
- John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
The only thing which can justify reckoning one person's opinion as equivalent to more than one is individual mental superiority, and what is wanted is some approximate means of ascertaining that.
Where this was said
↗Considerations on Representative Government (1861)gutenberg.org
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