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A Turk thinks, or used to think (for even Turks are wiser now-a-days), that society would be on a sandbank if women were suffered to walk about the streets with their faces uncovered. Taught by these and many similar examples, I look upon this expression of loosening the foundations of society, unless a person tells in unambiguous terms what he means by it, as a mere bugbear to frighten imbeciles with.
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Stability of Society (17 August 1850), quoted in Ann P. Robson and John M. Robson (eds.), [https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/mill-the-collected-works-of-john-stuart-mill-volume-xxv-newspaper-writings-part-iv/simple#lf0223-25_label_270 The Collected Works

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