The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that...he… — John Stuart Mill
The social state is at once so natural, so necessary, and so habitual to man, that...he never conceives himself otherwise than as a member of a body.
Utiliarianism · 1861
★ 3.7Provenance
Current citation
Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays, edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 3.
Original citation
Mill, John Stuart. "Utilitarianism." Fraser's Magazine, 1861, ch. 3.