Although John Stuart Mill provided no systematic account of equality, there is extensive textual evidence in his writings of an overarching egalitarian standpoint, which he applied consistently in a wide variety of contexts. Mill had a strong belief in the equal inborn capacities of all human beings. He was convinced that a more equal society could and should be realised, but it required a general moral improvement that would be a slow and gradual process. The major limitation on short-term egalitarian reforms was, in modern terminology, that they should not disrupt the incentives needed to keep the economy going.