英國人哲學家John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)在伊e著作On Liberty(1859)，針對當時英國人e思想，有下面這段e警告：

　「今仔日e英國人，事事攏是想愛集體作伙來做，才是算上好；習慣上，個人感覺家己真小，若是無大家聯合集體來做，做無好代誌；咱e宗教領袖及咱e道德領袖，也攏是贊成這款e想法。其實，過去有貢獻e人，予咱才有今仔日e英國，攏勿是有這款思想e人；這種人，也是今仔日英國若是要避免繼續退步所需要e人。

　在各所在，風俗習慣e專制，是對人類進步e阻礙，永遠是及人類追求要比風俗習慣更較好e目的對立。這種追求改變進步e意志，也著是叫作自由e精神（Liberty）。自由，絕對是，也永遠是，進步e來源。有幾個獨立自由意志e各人，著是有幾個改變進步e中心。

　中國予咱一個例──自古早，這個國家真幸運著有一套真好e風俗習慣，有真濟（多）e人才及某方面e智慧及創作，甚至，最先進開明e歐洲人，嘛著愛稱呼一寡中國人作聖賢或是哲學家。

　這寡中國人e聖賢及哲學家，真成功將尹（他們）e智慧傳授予尹（他們）e同胞；智慧吸收愈濟e人，地位、名聲也愈高。照理講，這寡中國人e聖賢及哲學家應該是先知先覺，早就發現人類進步e秘訣，行在世界潮流e頭前。事實是相反。尹是停止不動幾偌千年；尹將來若是要有任何e進步，一定是要靠外國人。

　這種完全無希望e現象，也是今仔日咱真濟好心行善e英國人認真追求e目標──要求大家e思想、行為，攏是愛共款，攏是愛受著共同e主義及教條來規範。這個目標是已經有達成了。

　現代e民意是一種無組織e形式，勿是親像中國人e教育及政治制度是一種有組織e形式。除非咱每一個各人單獨e個性會通出頭天，反抗這種組織形e束縛，歐洲，雖然有伊過去光榮e歷史及基督教信仰，也是會漸漸變成第二個中國。

　是按怎，歐洲到今仔日猶未行入去這款e命運？是什麼促成咱歐洲是人類進步e部分，勿是停止無進步e部分？並勿是歐洲人有較優秀；若是有較優秀，這是一個結果，勿是原因；原因應該是歐洲人有多種無共款e性格及文化。歐洲有今仔日，是受著伊多路線前進發展e恩惠。但是，這種恩惠，已經是開始快速e減少；歐洲真明顯是正在行向中國人e理想─將所有e人攏變作共款。」

　以上，是John Stuart Mill在十九世紀時對英國人所發出e警告。這本書發表e一百年後，中國人逃命來台灣，尹（他們）所帶來予台灣人e勿是干單尹（他們）永遠無希望e集體主義及風俗習慣e專制──尹（他們） e聖賢先知升級變作人類e救星；尹（他們）要反共抗俄，所以著愛獨占全台灣e軍、公、教，拼倒在地人e經濟──劫收、侵占，到18％ e優惠利息；任何在地人要追求平等、法治、人道e自由意志攏變成思想犯；槍殺、關禁、謀殺在地數萬無故e查甫人，娶在地e查某人作某；強迫所有台灣人變作中國人，講中國北京話。這種中國人在台灣所實施e集體主義e悽慘及恐怖，實在勿是南非及北美洲e黑人民族所了想會到。

　台灣人民，認識集體主義專制e危險性，追求進步e自由意志（Liberty） e解放，獨立建國，追隨世界進步e潮流，台灣人e子子孫孫才是幸福。John Stuart Mill在十九世紀中予英國人e警告，也應該是在二十一世紀初，予台灣人一個真大e啟示。

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　"The greatness of England is now all collective; individually small, we only appear capable of anything great by our habit of combining; and with this our moral and religious philanthropists are perfectly contented. But it was men of another stamp than this that made England what it has been; and men of another stamp will be needed to prevent its decline."

　"The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement, being in unceasing antagonism to that disposition to aim at something better than customary, which is called, according to circumstances, the spirit of liberty, or that of progress or improvement. .......but the only unfailing and permanent source of improvement is liberty, since by it there are as many possible independent centers of improvement as there are individuals." 

　"We have a warning example in China - a nation of much talent and, in some respects, even wisdom, owing to the rare good fortune of having been provided at an early period with a particularly good set of customs, the work, in some measure, of men to whom even the most enlightened European must accord, under certain limitations, the title of sages and philosophers. They are remarkable, too, in the excellence of their apparatus for impressing, as far as possible, the best wisdom they possess upon every mind in the community, and securing that those who have appropriated most of it shall occupy the posts of honor and power. Surely the people who did this have discovered the secret of human progressiveness and must have kept themselves steadily at the head of the movement of the world. On the contrary, they have become stationary - have remained so for thousands of years; and if they are ever to be further improved, it must be by foreigners. They have succeeded beyond all hope in what English philanthropists are so industriously working at - in making a people all alike, all governing their thoughts and conduct by the same maxims and rules; and these are the fruits. The modern regime of public opinion is, in an unorganized form, what the Chinese educational and political systems are in an organized; and unless individuality shall be able successfully to assert itself against this yoke, Europe, notwithstanding its noble antecedents and its professed Christianity, will tend to become another China."

　"What is it that has hitherto preserved Europe from this lot? What has made the European family of nations an improving, instead of a stationary, portion of mankind? Not any superior excellence in them, which, when it exists, exists as the effect, not as the cause, but their remarkable diversity of character and culture. ......Europe is, in my judgment, wholly indebted to this plurality of paths for its progressive and many-sided development. But it already begins to possess this benefit in a considerably less degree. It is decidedly advancing towards the Chinese ideal of making all people alike."

　"On Liberty" - John Stuart Mill (1859)

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