Attributed to John Stuart Mill . Adlai E. Stevenson: That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the hei — Attributed to John Stuart Mill . Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

Attributed to John Stuart Mill . Adlai E. Stevenson

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