It is John Stuart Mill, The Formation of Rational Opinion. " [N]o worse than they are" refers, I believe, to both opinions and forms of human conduct. We know this because he says " [w]hen we consider either...": the 'either' implies that his thought will refer to both sets of things. Mill is saying that we cannot really know what opinions and ... More @Wikipedia
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