Mill says, "Yet the people of any given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed. The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical influence of reason, which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first."

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The Answer of Mill says, "Yet the people of any given age and country no more suspect any difficulty in it, than if it were a subject on which mankind had always been agreed. The rules which obtain among themselves appear to them self-evident and self-justifying. This all but universal illusion is one of the examples of the magical influence of reason, which is not only, as the proverb says, a second nature, but is continually mistaken for the first."

Mill Says, "Yet the People of Any Given Age and Country