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Quotation from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
“What is needed is, that it should be a school of sympathy in equality, of living together in love, without power on one side or obedience on the other.”
The Subjection of Women, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition))
Mill's picture of the family as the training ground of the virtues of a free society.
Citation: "What is needed is, that it should be a school of sympathy in equality, of living together in love, without power on one side or obedience on the other." — John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women, Chapter II (Project Gutenberg text (1869 first edition)). (id the-subjection-of-women-q4)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
