On Liberty

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Such are I *.^ . the diflferences among human beings in their '^^ *"*' sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, .,.^1 and the operation on them of diflferent physical ,i\,/ */;*•• ^. and moral agencies, that unless there is a corre- ^onding diversity_intheit.. modes, of life,, they neither obtain their fait ^hiire of. happineffl, nor grow up. tQ the meptal^jnoral^andj^sthetic stature oX.jvhich their nature 4s^-.jcapable. Why then should tolerance, as far as the public sentiment is c...oncerned, extend only to tastes and modes of life which extort acquiescence by the multitude of their adherents? Nowhere (except in some monastic institutions) is diversity of taste entirely unrecognised; a person may, without blame, THE ELEMENTS OP WELL-BEING. 123 either like or dislike rowing, or smoking, or music, or athletic exercises, or chess, or cards, or study, because both those who like each of these things, and those who dislike them, are too numerous to be put down. But the man, and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing * what nobody does,' or of not doing 'what everybody does,' is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.

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