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Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
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enlarged culture and practised intelligence
Please tell me what the author, J. S. Mill, means with the blue phrase in the following sentence:
If every part of the business of society which required organized concert, or large and comprehensive views, were in the hands of the government, and if government offices were universally filled by the ablest men, all the enlarged culture and practised intelligence in the country, except the purely speculative, would be concentrated in a numerous bureaucracy, to whom alone the rest of the community would look for all things: the multitude for direction and dictation in all they had to do; the able and aspiring for personal advancement.
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Cadzao
If every part of the business of society which required organized concert, or large and comprehensive views, were in the hands of the government, and if government offices were universally filled by the ablest men, all the enlarged culture and practised intelligence in the country, except the purely speculative, would be concentrated in a numerous bureaucracy, to whom alone the rest of the community would look for all things: the multitude for direction and dictation in all they had to do; the able and aspiring for personal advancement.
Thank you.
Cadzao
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Cadzao Please tell me what the author, J. S. Mill, means with the blue phrase in the following sentence: If every part of the business of society which required organized concert, or large and comprehensive views, were in the hands of the government, and if government offices were universally filled by the ablest men, all the enlarged culture and practised intelligence in the country, except the purely speculative , would be concentrated in a numerous bureaucracy, to whom alone the rest of the community would look for all things: the multitude for direction and dictation in all they had to do; the able and aspiring for personal advancement.
- Cadzao Please tell me what the author, J.
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- Mill, means with the blue phrase in the following sentence: If every part of the business of society which required organized concert, or large and comprehensive views, were in the hands of the government, and if government offices were universally filled by the ablest men, all the enlarged culture and practised intelligence in the country, except the purely speculative , would be concentrated in a numerous bureaucracy, to whom alone the rest of the community would look for all things: the multitude for direction and dictation in all they had to do; the able and aspiring for personal advancement.
- Thank you.
- Cadzao I think Mill was saying that knowledge and culture would be concentrated in the governing group.
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CadzaoPlease tell me what the author, J. S. Mill, means with the blue phrase in the following sentence:
If every part of the business of society which required organized concert, or large and comprehensive views, were in the hands of the government, and if government offices were universally filled by the ablest men, all the enlarged cul
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I can't decypher this. I see that it was John Stuart Mill (known previously to me only as someone mentioned in Monty Python's Philosopher's Song), who wrote in the early to middle 1800s, so the style of writing then among "the learned" is quite different than it is today. I find it so overwrought as to almost impossible to read. I don't know what he means by "a numerous bureaucracy," let alone the
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I read this as follows:
IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN (WOULD HAPPEN) THAT
all knowledge important to the society would be concentrated in the government, AND if the government would only employ capable persons
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IF IT WERE TO HAPPEN (WOULD HAPPEN) THAT
all knowledge important to the society would be concentrated in the government, AND if the government would only employ capable persons
TH
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