Freedom, Reason, and Tradition
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It is a piece of idle senthentality that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, or prevailing against the dungeon and the stake. Men are not more zealous for truth than they often are for error, and a sufficient application oflegal or even of social penalties will generally succeed in stopping the propagation of either. The real advantage which truth has, consists in this: that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there willgenerally be found persons to rediscover it, until some one of its appearances falls on a rime when from .favorable circumstances it escapes persecution until it has made such head as to withstand all subsequent attempts to suppress it. -I. S. Mill, Ont iber ty '
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