 First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion...  Harvard Classics: Volume 25 - Page 256by John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...supplied. Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not I only true, but the whole truth ; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and [ earnestly... | |
 | 1864 - 974 pages
...never the whole troth, it is only by the collision of advene opinions that the remainder of the trnth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly, even if...the received opinion be not only true, but the whole trnth, uni«« it is suffered to he, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it wUI, by... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1865 - 118 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of V- л-'.; i 'V '*!. • A« OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. 31 adverse opinions that the... | |
 | 1869 - 404 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely, or never, the whole truth, it is only by...opinion be not only true, but the whole truth unless it be suffered to be, and actually is, rigourously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those... | |
 | Ephraim Chambers - 1870 - 872 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. (3) Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth ; unless it is suffered to be,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1878 - 98 pages
...commoulv does, contain a portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailmg opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...be not only true, but the whole truth ; unless it ia suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who... | |
 | Charles William Stubbs (bp. of Truro.) - 1884 - 152 pages
...may, and very commonly does, contain a portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailing opinion is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...truth has any chance of being supplied. " Thirdly, if even the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth, unless it is suffered to be and... | |
 | 1890 - 956 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole 'truth, it is only by...remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. (8) Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1895 - 404 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the col lision of adverse opinions that the remaindei of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly,... | |
 | 1897 - 846 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the . general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. (8) Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth — unless it is suffered to... | |
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