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People now give unreasoning instinct the infallibility once ascribed to reason
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What John Stuart Mill actually said
- John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
It is one of the characteristic prejudices of the reaction of the nineteenth century against the eighteenth, to accord to the unreasoning elements in human nature the infallibility which the eighteenth century is supposed to have ascribed to the reasoning elements.
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↗The Subjection of Women (1869)gutenberg.org
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