On LibertyLongmans, 1875 - 68 pages |
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... truth and right was my strongest incitement , and whose approbation was my chief reward - I dedicate this volume . Like all that I have written for many years , it belongs as much to her as to me ; but the work as it stands has had , in ...
... truth and right was my strongest incitement , and whose approbation was my chief reward - I dedicate this volume . Like all that I have written for many years , it belongs as much to her as to me ; but the work as it stands has had , in ...
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... truth : 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 error . It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses , each of ...
... truth : 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 error . It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses , each of ...
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... truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation . Complete liberty of con- tradicting and disproving our opinion , is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action ; and on no other terms can ...
... truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation . Complete liberty of con- tradicting and disproving our opinion , is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action ; and on no other terms can ...
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... truth a chance of reaching us : if the lists are kept open , we may hope that if there be a better truth , it will be found when the human mind is capable of receiving it ; and in the meantime we may rely on having attained such ...
... truth a chance of reaching us : if the lists are kept open , we may hope that if there be a better truth , it will be found when the human mind is capable of receiving it ; and in the meantime we may rely on having attained such ...
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... truth , as on its importance to society . There are , it is alleged , certain beliefs , so useful , not to say in- dispensable to well - being , that it is as much the duty of governments to up- hold those beliefs , as to protect any ...
... truth , as on its importance to society . There are , it is alleged , certain beliefs , so useful , not to say in- dispensable to well - being , that it is as much the duty of governments to up- hold those beliefs , as to protect any ...
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