"Freedom for all to act and think as their own powers enabled them, education to elicit and stimulate those powers, with the resultant diversity of minds - these were the real goals of the essay On Liberty. Mill gave two cheers for democracy, for it alone could generate a responsible people. He feared it because of the tyranny of the majority was able to flatten individuality as a steamroller does clods in a field.....Thus for Mill the great danger of democracy is self-defeat. Public opinion demands conformity; conformity destroys individuality; and if individuality is destroyed, men of character and genius that democracy requires for its leadership are destroyed with it."
-Brand Blanshard, Four Reasonable Men
thanks David
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