...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...and treading on each other's heels, which form the existence type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind, or anything but the disagreeable...

...conditions as the coming of the day of judgement. 'I am not charmed', Mill remarks, 'with the idea of life held out by those who think that the normal...of human beings is that of struggling to get on'. American readers will note the comments on America in the first edition, which Mill later struck out...

...war but a harbinger of the ideas propounded by Keynes and Beveridge a century later. I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; the trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each other's heads, which form the existing type...

...before the hippies or their gurus or even before modern psychologists were born. In 1857 Mill wrote: "I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life...state of human beings is that of struggling to get on. ... There would be ... as much room for improving the Art of Living and much more likelihood of its...

...acceptance of the need for a moral society. 56 Even Mill's prescriptions for the liberal society did not see 'the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on...heels which form the existing type of social life, [as] the most desirable lot of mankind'. 57 Mills was especially critical of the way in which Bentham's...

...unaffected aversion so generally manifested towards it by political economists of the old school. I am inclined to believe that it would be, on the whole,...considerable improvement on our present condition ... It is scarcely necessary to remark that a stationary condition of capital and population implies...

...this quotation illustrates: I confess I am not charmed with an ideal of life held out by those that think that the normal state of human beings is that...trampling, crushing, elbowing and treading on each others' heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human kind,...

...the end of ... the progressive state lies the stationary state [zero-growth state]." Mill goes on, I confess I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think diat the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing,...

...replaced by a world in which "no one desires to be richer." This "steady state." as Mill's characterizes it. "would be, on the whole, a very considerable improvement on our present condition." 1t would be, as Marx and Keynes also emphasized, the transforming power of material ptogress that would...

...necessary and, more importantly, because he found it appealing. He was "not charmed" with the ideal of "those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on ... trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels." The positive value of stationary...