Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Society in equality is its normal state.”
- Source
- The Subjection of Women
- Date
- 1869
Meaning of “Society in equality is its normal state.”
Mill contrasts relations organized around command and obedience with equal association, presenting equality as the normal direction of an improving society.
Where does it come from?
The Subjection of Women (1869), Chapter II, printed page 79, Project Gutenberg #27083. Mill contrasts command-and-obedience relations with equal association and states that society in equality is the normal state toward which improving social relations should move.
