 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...  New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 473edited by - 1859Full view - About this book
 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression ol an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...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 - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...who dissent from the opinion, still more than those y*~who hold it.JIf the opinion is right, they are deprived . of the opportunity of exchanging error... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...persons or on many. 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...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 - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...'if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the oppor» i vyj . tunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1863 - 236 pages
...persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expres-"r'" sion of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...who dissent from the opinion, still more than those whq hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the oppor\/ * tunity of exchanging error... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...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 pages
...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 - Zoroastrianism - 1868 - 154 pages
...ZOROASTRIANISM. FRANCE. OPPERT. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1869 - 974 pages
...influences of persecution for opinion's sake — equally pernicious to mankind in either way — " if the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...error for truth ; if wrong, they lose what is almost аз great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth presented by its collision... | |
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