...the race itself may be considered at its nonage. . . . Despotism is a legitimate mode of governance in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their...the means justified by actually effecting that end. See John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (London: Dent, 1964), p. 73. For the contemporary equivalent in US...

...John Stuart Mill's justification of British imperial rule over India. w As, Mill contends, "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."'' Other prominent philosophers, such as Hegel and Marx, relied solely upon linear conceptions of social...

...pp 376-379. 394-398. 4l5-420 See also the notorious claim of On Libcrn; CW XVIII. p 224: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians. provided the end be their relic of past times. revolving in his own little mental orbit. without participation or interest in...

...free and equal discussion." When he discusses "backward states," Mill is paternalistic: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end." pp. 1 3- 14. 2. Id., pp. 15-16. 3. Id. at p. 20. 4. Id. at p. 22. 5. Id. at pp. 22-2 3. 6. Likewise,...

...backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its nonage... . Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement ... Mill's quote highlights what may today be seen as the bête noire of classical liberalism as a...

...disciplined and lawabiding. JS Mill has rightly said, "Despotism is a legitimate mode of Government for dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement and the means be justified by actually affecting that end".7 (2) All-sided development of the country is possible....

...spatial extension. Markets, for 18 Mill embraces the same point as an ethnographic fact: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end." J. Mill, On Liberty 81 (D. Bromwich and G. Kateb, eds., [1859] 2003). example, might be classified...

...supported the expansion and consolidation of European rule over non-European subjects. "Despotism," wrote Mill, "is a legitimate mode of government in dealing...and the means justified by actually effecting that end."3 Mill and Tocqueville were joined in their support for empire by many of their liberal contemporaries...

...condition of collective minority. Mill makes his opinion on the latter point quite clear: 'Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...and the means justified by actually effecting that end'.50 Leaving aside the qualifying clause (though who is to be the judge of the end pursued or of...

...the time when mankind have become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion; despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...their improvement and the means justified by actually affecting that end." Kalven expresses concern that recognizing a restriction for minors upon such grounds...