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Cadzao Posted 20 years ago
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John Stuart Mill wrote:
"... in proportion to a man's want of confidence in his own solitary judgment, does he usually repose, with implicit trust, on the infallibility of "the world" in general. Anh the world, to each individual, means part of it with which he comes in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society; the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and large-minded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age."
Please help me to understand what the author means with the blue sentence.
Thank you.
Cadzao
"... in proportion to a man's want of confidence in his own solitary judgment, does he usually repose, with implicit trust, on the infallibility of "the world" in general. Anh the world, to each individual, means part of it with which he comes in contact; his party, his sect, his church, his class of society; the man may be called, by comparison, almost liberal and large-minded to whom it means anything so comprehensive as his own country or his own age."
Please help me to understand what the author means with the blue sentence.
Thank you.
Cadzao
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People think in general about those directly around them, and not that much about the rest. ).
- People think in general about those directly around them, and not that much about the rest.
- ).
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People think in general about those directly around them, and not that much about the rest.
Only rarely, will you find people (which are liberal or large-minded), who think about their own country or about their own generation (or epoch/period??).
Only rarely, will you find people (which are liberal or large-minded), who think about their own country or about their own generation (or epoch/period??).
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