--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The quote I posted by John Mill was copied verbatim > from Wikipedia. If it is a distortion Santosh > should correct the Wikipedia record. >
Wikipedia has already provided a correct quote. Here is the link to it: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill Here is the quote with the relevant source information, according to Wikipedia: "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice,is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. "The Contest in America" Frasers Magazine (February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868) Vol.1 p. 26" Cheers, Santosh _____________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. Goanet mailing list (Goanet@goanet.org)