 But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are...  Evolution and Creation - 11. lappuseautors: Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1887 - 312 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 lapas
...was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression ol an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ;...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 lapas
...extreme on the evil of silencing the expression of an opinion — which evil, it is contended, amounts to robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. The win île strength and value of human judgment depending, Mr. Mill argues, on the one property,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1859 - 216 lapas
...it.JIf the opinion is right, they are deprived . of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth :J 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 errorjj It is necessary to consider separately... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 lapas
...it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an...great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impressions of truth, produced from its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 lapas
...still more than those whq hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the oppor\/ * tunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose,...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 lapas
...more than those who hold it. 'if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the oppor» i vyj . tunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose,...benefit, [the clearer perception and livelier impression truth, produced by its collision with erroj. I ter"separately these iwo hypotheses, each of which has... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 lapas
...it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately these two hypotheses, each of which has a distinct branch of... | |
 | 1866 - 490 lapas
...it. " If the opinion is right," by denying to men the opportunity of examining its reliability, men " are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." In this belief it is the aim of iis serial to subject the various topics of thought, as they arise,... | |
 | Adolphe Franck - 1868 - 154 lapas
...LENOX TILDf .LJ REGISTERED UNDER ACT XXV. OP 1867. FRENCH VIEWS ON ZOROASTRIANISM. FRANCE. OPPERT. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. — JOHN STUART MILL. On Liberty, ch. ii. THE TRANSLATOR'S NOTE. THE following pages embody some of... | |
 | 1869 - 974 lapas
...influences of persecution for opinion's sake — equally pernicious to mankind in either way — " if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...clearer perception and livelier impression of truth presented by its collision with error," as well as in the definite knowledge obtained, that in the... | |
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