...contemporary acceptance of the idea of Asia as a stagnant spectacle that Montesquieu had described: 'Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...their improvement, and the means justified by actually affecting that end."1* The dynamic spirit of British laws - energetic supervision, commercial vigilance,...

...necessity of despotism in the colonies. Mill makes this clear when he states: "Despotism is a legitímate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided...and the means justified by actually effecting that end."28 Therefore one subtext of the debate was about timing: when could the "mother country" release...

...it should be noted that even the great Victorian liberal John Stuart Mill believed that "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...barbarians, provided the end be their improvement." Quoted by Richard Drayton, Nature's Government: Science, Imperial Britain, and the 'Improvement' of...

...Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign. (Despotism, however, is the legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.) In the first instance we will confine ourselves to the Liberty of Thought. CHAPTER 2: OF THE LIBERTY...

...to convert them into a people of slaves.""' In On Liherty he had been just as forthright: "Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end loe their improvement, and the means justified by actually effecting that end. LiIxetty, as a principle,...

...may be considered in its nonage'. Indeed, he asserted 'despotism is a legitimate mode of government with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement,...the means justified by actually effecting that end.' Paternalistic interference with those who had yet to become autonomous was both acceptable and imperative...

...influence of his exalted office." JS Mill says that "Despotism is a legitimate mode of Government for dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement and the means be justified by actually effecting that end." Absolute monarchy possesses .the merits of strength,...

...elected as the founding father of "liberal socialism."5 In John Stuart Mill we can read that "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...state of things anterior to the time when mankind has become capable of being improved by free and equal discussion. Until then, there is nothing for...

...improved by free and equal discussion." Anterior to that time, men may still be barbarians, and "despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with...the means justified by actually effecting that end." Mill's oftenquoted words have a less familiar implication on which their meaning depends: the internal...

...political conundrums that transformative, universalist discourses of empire necessarily encounter. II mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided...the means justified by actually effecting that end" (On Liberty, CW XVIII, 224). 1 In emphasizing "improvement" as the legitimate goal of imperial rule,...