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“All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sense of its difficulties, are aware that the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking part of the truth for the whole. It might be plausibly maintained that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied; and that if either could have been made to take the other’s views in addition to its own, little more would have been needed to make its doctrine correct.”

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John Stuart Mill was an influential British philosopher, economist, and logician. He is one of the most important figures in 19th-century philosophy and his ideas had a profound impact on political, social, and philosophical thought of the time. more

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