But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in...

But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
John Stuart Mill

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Persons of genius it is true are and are always likely to be a small minority but in order to have them it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion.
- John Stuart Mill

But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in those which already existed. John Stuart Mill

But these few are the salt of the earth without them human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist it is they who keep the life in those which already existed.
John Stuart Mill