The _salus publica_ demands the sacrifice.

But to make an individual ridiculous merely because he has written a foolish, if it be a harmless book, is not, I think, justifiable on any moral principle ...
I repeat my principle.

Whatever tends to vitiate our literary taste, our morals, our religious or political principles, may be fairly at the mercy of criticism.

So, whatever tends to introduce false science, false history, indeed, falsehood in any shape, exposes itself to the censor's rod.

But harmless, inoffensive works should be passed by.