I wasn't familiar with that passage, or at least I don't recall it. But I had little trouble sussing out the meaning -- although I felt like the explication that followed it was more sociological than philosophical in nature.
That said, I was raised in a political milieu greatly influenced by Mill, so I'm already reasonably familiar with the ideas explicit and implicit in his writing.
Why is philosophy difficult?
Philosophy student.....will stay humble so the scientists don't "get" me.
I wasn't familiar with that passage, or at least I don't recall it. But I had little trouble sussing out the meaning -- although I felt like the explication that followed it was more sociological than philosophical in nature.
That said, I was raised in a political milieu greatly influenced by Mill, so I'm already reasonably familiar with the ideas explicit and implicit in his writing.