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    It is not the case that Despite drawing on conservative thought, Mill remained a liberal and not a conservative.

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    • 1.Mill's doctrine of the 'tyranny of prevailing opinion' in On Liberty mirrors Burke's concern that majoritarian sentiment threatens inherited social wisdom.
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    • 2.Mill's advocacy for plural voting in Considerations on Representative Government reflects a conservative distrust of equal democratic capacity, not liberal egalitarianism.
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    • 3.A thinker whose institutional proposals structurally privilege educated elites over democratic majorities cannot be classified as straightforwardly liberal rather than conservative.
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    • 1.Mill explicitly praised Coleridge alongside Bentham as a foundational thinker, treating conservative organicism as a necessary corrective to utilitarian abstraction.
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    • 2.Robson and Skorupski have demonstrated that Mill's conception of 'progressive beings' entails a hierarchical cultivation of character that aligns with Arnoldian conservative perfectionism, not liberal neutrality.
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    • 1.Mill's perfectionism contrasts with conservative pessimism about human nature.
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    • 2.Mill rejected intuitionism, which fosters conservatism by treating deeply held beliefs as self-justifying.
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    • 3.Mill held that inveterate beliefs must be justified by reason, not Burkean prejudice.
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