Mill borrowed Locke’s ‘Nonage’ term to justify colonial immaturity claims

Evidence

It bears noting then that Locke later in the 2d Treatise characterized children, whom he calls minors, as those in their “Nonage” (2nd Treatise, 365, #69). This is the very term by which John Stuart Mill more than a century later referred to nations he supposed historically yet too immature to rule themselves. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 28

Categorization

• SEED: The lexical continuity of ‘nonage’ from Locke to Mill is a neat thread for an essay on how one word carries a century of colonial paternalism.
• XREF: connects to: Locke’s improvement doctrine undergirded neoliberal justifications of colonial appropriation. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 399