Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1890 edition. Extrait: ... sarcasm. Polished weapons were supposed to be most effective among cultivated circles as they are called, but some writers forget that the tools they use are only too easily and readily employed by such as can lay no claim to literary influence. Whether the ...
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Ce livre historique peut contenir de nombreuses coquilles et du texte manquant. Les acheteurs peuvent generalement telecharger une copie gratuite scannee du livre original (sans les coquilles) aupres de l'editeur. Non reference. Non illustre. 1890 edition. Extrait: ... sarcasm. Polished weapons were supposed to be most effective among cultivated circles as they are called, but some writers forget that the tools they use are only too easily and readily employed by such as can lay no claim to literary influence. Whether the disease of intolerant expression is most acute now in general or religious publications, it should serve as a wholesome warning in respect to a common tendency. Whether it may or may not be well that the animosity shown is permitted to take only a verbal shape, we can see that no parties, as such, are wholly free from bitterness of spirit, and that the step from strong dislike of any views to the exercise of an active hostility against those who profess and propagate them, however serious, is very short. Here, of course, we meet again with our old serious practical difficulty. Indeed, it is the crux of every controversial procedure. We cannot assail an error in the air. It appears in the utterance of some man. And he must needs be addressed or implicated in the effort to prove that the statement or sentence is wrong. Moreover, we may fairly say that nothing justifies a man in being indifferent to that which is unrighteous or untrue. Is there not, therefore, a very nice or subtle difference between indifference and intolerance? May one be permitted and the other not? What constitutes that intolerance which is counted reprehensible by those who would never admit that any one was justified in being indifferent to evil? When does resistance to evil pass into blameworthy personal intolerance? It is dangerous to attempt definitions, and impossible perhaps (in this instance), to supply a succinct one, and yet it is so important that we...
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