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

— Adlai Stevenson

John Stuart Mill, as quoted by Stevenson in Call to Greatness (1954), p. 102; this has also been misquoted as "That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another."
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