 | john stuart mill - 1859 - 230 pages
...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 ;...truth : if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1859 - 520 pages
...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...truth ; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1859 - 216 pages
...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...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
...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...truth ; if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impressions of truth, produced from its collision with... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...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...'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
...inflicted only on a few 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...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
...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...truth : if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.... | |
 | 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...truth; if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error."... | |
 | Adolphe Franck - Zoroastrianism - 1868 - 154 pages
...LENOX TILDf .LJ REGISTERED UNDER ACT XXV. OP 1867. FRENCH VIEWS ON ZOROASTRIANISM. FRANCE. OPPERT. The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an...truth ; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1869 - 258 pages
...would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. Butthe peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion...those who dissent from the opinion, still more than thosewho hold it. If theopiniou is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error... | |
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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... 
