 But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are...  On Liberty - Page 36by John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose,...hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of c the argument corresponding to it. We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...it.JIf the opinion is right, they are deprived . of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth :J if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a; benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impres-; sion of truth, produced by its collision with errorjj It is necessary to consider separately... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...opinion still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose...great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impressions of truth, produced from its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...still more than those who hold it. 'if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the oppor» i vyj . tunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they...benefit, [the clearer perception and livelier impression truth, produced by its collision with erroj. I ter"separately these iwo hypotheses, each of which has... | |
 | Adolphe Franck - Zoroastrianism - 1868 - 154 pages
...opinion still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose,...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — JOHN STUART MILL. On Liberty, ch. ii. THE TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. THE following pages embody some of... | |
 | 1869 - 974 pages
...pernicious to mankind in either way — " if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose...clearer perception and livelier impression of truth presented by its collision with error," as well as in the definite knowledge obtained, that in the... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1869 - 258 pages
...right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose,what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth,produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...pernicious to mankind in either way — " if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose what is almost аз great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth presented by its collision... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - African Americans - 1871 - 224 pages
...opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." Mr. Mill says further, " The greatest orator, save one, of antiquity, has left it on record that he... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Debates and debating - 1874 - 112 pages
...denying to men the opportunity of examining its reliability, they " are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." Thought is the great power of life. Election implies the exercise of discriminative thought, and a... | |
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