John Stuart Mill on love of the world

    In these words of John Stuart Mill we detect the promise of a great wave of coming environmentalism:

When we consider how ardent a sentiment, in favourable circumstances, of education, the love of country has become, we cannot judge it impossible that the love of that larger country, the world, may be nursed into similar strength, both as a source of elevated emotion and as a principle of duty. (Quoted from Three Essays on Religion, by John Stuart Mill. Henry Holt and Co. 1874. p. 107)
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