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Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, … (“On Liberty”; chapter 3, p. 2)

Based on this passage from John Stuart Mill’s “On Liberty,” Mill would most likely be a proponent of _____ theories.

Alexander Hamilton's
Thomas Jefferson's
Machiavelli's
Charles Darwin's

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Charles Darwin's i'm pretty sure but it mite be goo to look at your passage once more
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Answer: Charles Darwin's.

This sentence would most likely match the way of thinking of Charles Darwin. The sentence states that it is necessary for people to be visionaries, and to discover new truths that challenge earlier assumptions. This was the case with Darwin's theory of evolution. Although it was not initially accepted, and it challenged previous theories about the world, it is now universally accepted and extremely influential in the way we see the world.

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