 | 1831 - 616 pages
...corrupts, degrades, and secularizes the church. " Men are never so likely," says an able critic, " to settle a question rightly, as when they discuss it freely. A government can 2D. SEBIES, NO. 3. — VOL. Г. interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 pages
...corrupts, degrades, and secularizes the church. " Men are never so likely," says an able critic, " to settle a question rightly, as when they discuss it freely. A government can 2t>. f CRIES, KO. 3.— YOL. I. interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...information, concerning which any man in the streets may know as much, and think as justly, as a king — religion and morals. Men are never so likely to settle...only by making it less free than it would otherwise b*. Men are most likely to form just opinions when they have no other wish than to know the truth,... | |
 | 1861 - 490 pages
...is mistress of intelligence, and intelligence is mistress of the world." Bulwer has written, that " men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely." The public will not wait for political pamphlets and essays — they must have their supply of news,... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - Religion - 1852 - 50 pages
...speech the friend of truth dismisses, in these days, his struggling brother. "Men," says Macaulay, "are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely."* Then why should he not be able to assist them in doing it ? What know any of us of absolute truth 1... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 588 pages
...Time, with all its celerity, moves slowly on to him whose whole employment is to watch its flight. — Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. — What is not for the interest of the whole swarm, is not for the essential interest of a single... | |
 | 1854 - 402 pages
...made to think, and can cultivate a habit of thinking, without which you can not be useful or happy. MEN are never so likely to settle -a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. FINGER-MARKS. SOME time since, a gentleman residing at Cambridge employed a mason to do some work for... | |
 | 666 pages
...found, the opportunity to disclose itself; to grant to all, the liberty of free discussion. — IDEM. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. Men are most likely to form just opinions when they have no other •wish than to know the truth, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...information, concerning which any man in the streets may know as much, and think as justly, as a king— religion and morals. Men are never so likely to settle...by making it less free than it would otherwise be. ien are most likely to form just opinion» when they have no other wish than to know he truth, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...concerning which any man in the streets may know as much, and thmk as justly, as a king—religion and morals. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. A goernment can interfere in discussion, only by making it less free than it would otherwise be. Vfen... | |
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. 
