Harm, Liberty, and Disability

Abstract

Among the works of man which human life is rightly employed in perfecting and beautifying, the first in importance surely is man himself...Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing (Mill 1978, pp. 56-7).