 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 920 pàgines
...which any man in the streets may know as much and think as justly as a Li»:: — religion and morals. Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. A government can interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise be. Men... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pàgines
...man in the streets may know as much and think as justly as a king — religion and morals. Men arc g( ^@j ɶ ڔq _'. / 5 w i Л government can interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise be. Men... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pàgines
...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 a question rightly as when they discuss il freely. A governmenl can interfere in discussion only by making it less free than it would otherwise... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pàgines
...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 a question rightly, as when they discuss it freely. A government can interfere in discussion, only by making it less free than it would otherwise be. Men... | |
 | 1861 - 490 pàgines
...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, and... | |
 | George Jacob Holyoake - 1852 - 50 pàgines
...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 - 1853 - 588 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 962 pàgines
...in his remarks on that subject. He seems to act upon the motto which he cites from Macaula y, that " Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely." The volume comprises what he saw and heard " during the first three of fourteen months' travel in the Slave... | |
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Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. 
