John Stuart Mill - The Principles of Political Economy

Today’s Green Thought comes from Chapter 6, Book 4 of The Principles of Political Economy (1848) by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Principles_of_Political_Economy:_with_some_of_their_applications_to_social_philosophy

Towards what ultimate point is society tending by its industrial progress? When the progress ceases, in what condition are we to expect that it will leave mankind?

The first paragraph and the latter half of this chapter (Of the Stationary State [less than 1500 words]) is well worth reading - http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/mill/book4/bk4ch06