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Quotation from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
“they are in peril of a commission _de lunatico_, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations”
On Liberty, Ch. III, Of Individuality
Mill warns that strongly individual conduct risks a judicial inquiry into sanity; a footnote attacks the evidence on which people were declared insane. Underscores mark italics in the source.
Citation: "they are in peril of a commission _de lunatico_, and of having their property taken from them and given to their relations" — John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Ch. III, Of Individuality. (id on-liberty-q8)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
