...On Liberty, John Stuart Mill states, "Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model . . . but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself...of the inward forces which make it a living thing" (56). For John Stuart Mill, the intellectual advancement of the human race will result in greater happiness,...

...permanent interests of man as a progressive being', and in a famous passage he likens human nature to 'a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself...tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing'.14 How does this emphasis on development affect Mill's conception of individual sovereignty?...

...and self-control to hold to his deliberate decision Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing. 9. From Tennyson's In Memoriam, 1850. [Hardy knew personally Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92), and,...

...develop their unique capacities. "Human nature," he tells us, "is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...develop itself on all sides according to the tendency of inward forces that make it a living thing."14 This has been called a "developmental" understanding...

...starved specimens of what nature can and will produce. Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develope itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living...

...nature, after all, was more like a tree than a machine, and thus it ought "to grow and develope [sic] itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." (263) Mill celebrated individuality, however, less for its intrinsic value than for its usefulness...

...try to be like someone else, who will be like me? Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for...of the inward forces which make it a living thing. Yiddish Proverb John Stuart Mill The Koretzer Rebbe said: In the Creation Story we are told that humankind...

...and set to do exactly the work prescnbed for iL but a tree, which requires to grow and devalop itsalf on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing. (Mill 1g85 edn. p. 123I In this passage Mill seems to have moved from defending the consequantial valus...

...manner of man they are that do it ... Human nature is not a machine to be builf after a modal, and sef to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and devalop itsalf on all sides, according to the tandancy of the inward forces which make it a living...

...for..." The Tree-and-Hoop Process of Development Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which ¡must] grow and develop itself on all sides. —JOHN STUART MILL, "On Individuality" The transpersonal...