... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for tru…

John Stuart Mill
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... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole. ✨ John Stuart Mill (1873). Coleridge. M. de Tocqueville on democracy in America. Bailey on Berkeley's theory of vision. Michelets' history of France. The claims of labor. Guizot's essays and lectures on history. Early Grecian history and legend, p.11
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