“When a people are ripe for free institutions, there is a still more vital consideration. Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read & speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist.”
—John Stuart Mill, Representative Government (1861)
“When a people are ripe for free institutions, there is a still more vital consideration. Free institutions are next to impossible in a country made up of different nationalities. Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read & speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of representative government, cannot exist.”
—John Stuart Mill, Representative Government (1861)