 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877 - 618 páginas
...instigation. Neither government nor people has any right to abridge this liberty of thought and discussion. " If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person of the contrary opinion, mankind would no more be justified in silencing that one person, than he,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1878 - 464 páginas
...Tocquevttk, Demacr. en Amer., i. 307. 2 In politics this is true nearly to the extent of Mr. Mill's axiom : ' If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and...of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justifiVd in silencing that one person, than h", if he had the power, would be justified in silencing... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1884 - 308 páginas
...exerted in accordance with public opinion, than when in opposition to it". He further declares that "if all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he,... | |
 | 1885 - 612 páginas
...advocacy. This truth was forcibly put by the late John Stuart Mill, in his work "On Liberty," when he said: "If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." Again : "The peculiar evil... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1887 - 652 páginas
...Dernocr. eli Amer., i. 307. 2 hi politics this is tnie nearly to the extent of Mr. Mill's axiom: " If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and...opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing thai one person, than he, it' he had the power, would be justified in silencini; mankind." — On Liberty,... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 páginas
...liberties will follow. John Mill carried this principle to the fullest extent when he argued that " if all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." To all such sweeping generalizations... | |
 | 1890 - 894 páginas
...are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. "If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were to he found of a contrary opin ion, mankind would be no more iustified in silencing that one than he,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine May - 1891 - 644 páginas
...Democr. at Amer., i. 307. 1 In politics this is tree nearly to the extent of Mr. Mill's axiom : " I' all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion, and only...contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencmg lhal one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." —... | |
 | William Henry Van Ornum - 1892 - 384 páginas
...restriction; and restriction is the opposite of freedom; that is, slavery. To use Mr. Mill's own words, "If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and...be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would he justified in silencing mankind." This had reference only to... | |
 | Charles Robert Drysdale - 1892 - 122 páginas
...noxious, or more noxious, •when exerted in accordance with public opinion than when in opposition to it. If all mankind, minus one, were of one opinion. and...be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind." Speaking subsequently of the... | |
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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. 
