On LibertyJ. W. Parker and Son, 1859 - 207 pages |
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Page 48
... Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the first martyrs must have been worse men than they themselves are , ought to remember that one of those persecutors was Saint Paul . Let us add one more example , the ...
... Christians who are tempted to think that those who stoned to death the first martyrs must have been worse men than they themselves are , ought to remember that one of those persecutors was Saint Paul . Let us add one more example , the ...
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... Christ . This man , a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word , than almost any of the osten- sibly Christian sovereigns who have since reigned , persecuted Christianity . Placed at the summit of all the previous ...
... Christ . This man , a better Christian in all but the dogmatic sense of the word , than almost any of the osten- sibly Christian sovereigns who have since reigned , persecuted Christianity . Placed at the summit of all the previous ...
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... Christian teaching , was wanting to Marcus Aurelius for punishing , as he did , the propagation of Christianity . No Christian more firmly believes that Atheism is false , and tends to the dissolution of society , than Marcus Aurelius ...
... Christian teaching , was wanting to Marcus Aurelius for punishing , as he did , the propagation of Christianity . No Christian more firmly believes that Atheism is false , and tends to the dissolution of society , than Marcus Aurelius ...
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... Christianity were in the right ; that persecution is an ordeal through which truth ought to pass , and always passes successfully , legal penalties being , in the end , powerless against truth , though sometimes beneficially effective ...
... Christianity were in the right ; that persecution is an ordeal through which truth ought to pass , and always passes successfully , legal penalties being , in the end , powerless against truth , though sometimes beneficially effective ...
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... Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman Empire . It spread , and became predomi- nant , because the persecutions were only occasional , lasting but a short time , and separated by long inter- vals of almost undisturbed ...
... Christianity might have been extirpated in the Roman Empire . It spread , and became predomi- nant , because the persecutions were only occasional , lasting but a short time , and separated by long inter- vals of almost undisturbed ...
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Page 33 - If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Page 101 - An opinion that corndealers are starvers of the poor, or that private property is robbery, ought to be unmolested when simply circulated through the press, but may justly incur punishment when delivered orally to an excited mob assembled before the house of a corn-dealer, or when handed about among the same mob in the form of a placard.
Page 190 - A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another ; and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation, in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by natural tendency to one over the body.
Page 106 - He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
Page 24 - I regard utility as the ultimate appeal on all ethical questions; but it must be utility in the largest sense, grounded on the permanent interests of man as a progressive being.
Page 7 - Liberty : the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual.!
Page 33 - But I deny the right of the people to exercise such coercion, either by themselves or by their government. The power itself is illegitimate. The best government has no more title to it than the worst. It is as noxious, or more noxious, when exerted in accordance with public opinion than when in opposition to it.
Page 66 - ... struck between two sets of conflicting reasons. Even in natural philosophy there is always some other explanation possible of the same facts; some geocentric theory instead of heliocentric, some phlogiston instead of oxygen; and it has to be shown why that other theory cannot be the true one; and until this is shown, and until we know how it is shown, we do not understand the grounds of our opinion.
Page 140 - ... unfair or ungenerous use of advantages over them; even selfish abstinence from defending them against injury— these are fit objects of moral reprobation, and, in grave cases, of moral retribution and punishment. And not only these acts, but the dispositions which lead to them, are properly immoral, and fit subjects of disapprobation which may rise to abhorrence.
Page 145 - I fully admit that the mischief which a person does to himself, may seriously affect, both through their sympathies and their interests, those nearly connected with him, and in a minor degree, society at large.