 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sivua
...though it be valour enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of truth. For who knows not that truth is strong, next to the Almighty; she needs no policies nor stratagems nor licensings to make her victorious, those are the shifts and the defences that error uses against... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 sivua
...prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Let her and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and clear knowledge to be sent down among us, would think... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 sivua
...we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to doubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"-Milton, Areopagitica; or Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (1644). Areopagitica... | |
 | Randal Marlin - 2002 - 334 sivua
...do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and...Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. (JM 50) Licensing, he says, in a frequently adopted mercantile metaphor, "hinders and retards the importation... | |
 | Lucy Vickers - 2002 - 292 sivua
...Expression (1970) Random House, New York. 26 'Let [truth] and falsehood grapple; whoever knewTruth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing.' Areopagitica (1 644) in J. Milton, Areopagitica and Other Prose VCbrks (1927) Dent and Sons, London.... | |
 | Onora O'Neill - 2002 - 116 sivua
...credible claim increases, it is simply harder to place trust reasonably. Milton asked rhetorically 'Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' Today the very prospect of a 'free and open encounter' is drowning in the supposedly transparent world... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 2002 - 616 sivua
...therefore goodness, must prevail if only truth is given a fair chance. 'Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?' (Areopagitica. Compare the French proverb, La verite triomphe toujours.) So when Milton's Truth was... | |
 | Michael Meyerson - 2002 - 304 sivua
...do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple, who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Much of the heart of the First Amendment can be seen in the faith that, over time, falsity will be... | |
 | Karl Raimund Popper - 2002 - 614 sivua
...therefore goodness, must prevail if only truth is given a fair chance. 'Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter1' (Areopogitica, Compare the French proverh, La verite triomphe toujours.) So when Mihon's... | |
 | Loren P. Beth - 2002 - 192 sivua
...therefore not forbid nor hinder the continuing search for it.34 He welcomed freedom as the test of truth; "who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"35 and saw that in such an encounter diversity of belief was necessary and desirable. "If... | |
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And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength. Let her and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free... 
