John Stuart Mill on eccentrics

One reason why the wokist/p.c.-conformists are dangerous. Mill in 1859:

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

Source: Chapter 3 of On Liberty (1859).

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