It is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
What is true of Mr. Mill's influence on the women's-suffrage question is true also of the other political movements in which he took an active interest.
Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

