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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?

John Stuart Mill

Country, Greatness, Mind

What a country wants to make it richer is never consumption, but production. Where there is the latter, we may be sure that there is no want of the former. To produce, implies that the producer de_sires to consume; why else should he give himself useless labor? He may not wish to consume what he himself produces, but his motive for producing and selling is the desire to buy. Therefore, if the producers generally produce and sell more and more, they certainly also buy more and more.

John Stuart Mill

Country, Giving, Wish

John Stuart Mill (2007). “Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy”, p.46, Cosimo, Inc.

It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

John Stuart Mill

Country, Countries Of The World, Important

John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Riley (1998). “Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

John Stuart Mill

Country, Ambition, Hard Work

John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

So much barbarism, however, still remains in the transactions of most civilized nations, that almost all independent countries choose to assert their nationality by having, to their inconvenience and that of their neighbors, a peculiar currency of their own.

John Stuart Mill

Country, Independent, Peculiar

John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.251, VM eBooks