How is 1848 like 2009?
June 17th, 2009
“It’s hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings In contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been, and is peculiarly in the present age, one of the primary sources of progress.”
—John Stuart Mill, 1848
Entry Filed under: Founding Fathers, Quotable, Village Square 101
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