 dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth : if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression...  On Liberty - Страница 10по John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 68 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1859 - 516 страници
...contended, amounts to robbing the human' race, posterity as well as the existing generation, those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. The whole strength and value of human judgment depending, Mr. Mill argues, on the one property, that... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 страници
...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...great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impressions of truth, produced from its collision with error. It is necessary to consider separately... | |
 | Samuel Neil - 1874 - 112 страници
...in it. " If the opinion is right," by denying to men the opportunity of examining its reliability, they " are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." Thought is the great power of life. Election implies the exercise of discriminative thought, and a... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877 - 618 страници
...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...of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose the clear perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error " (p. 36).... | |
 | Theodore Dwight Woolsey - 1877 - 618 страници
...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...of exchanging error for truth ; if wrong, they lose the clear perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error " (p. 36).... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - 1881 - 490 страници
...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...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. * * * No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize, that as a thinker it is his first duty... | |
 | David Kay - 1883 - 636 страници
...an opinion is that it is robbing the human race—posterity as well as the existing generation. ... If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...impression of tr.uth produced by its collision with error." Further, " men should be free to act upon their opinions, to carry them out in their lives without... | |
 | David Kay - 1883 - 552 страници
...an opinion is that it is robbing the human race—posterity as well as the existing generation. ... If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." Further, " men should be free to act upon their opinions, to carry them out in their lives without... | |
 | David Kay - 1883 - 564 страници
...an opinion is that it is robbing the human race—posterity as well as the existing generation. ... If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the...truth; if wrong, they lose what is almost as great a beriefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error."... | |
 | 1885 - 612 страници
...human race ; posterity as well i the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion still ore than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived ' the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they lose— hat is almost as great a benefit—the... | |
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