[Principles of Freedom by Terence J. MacSwiney]@TWC D-Link bookPrinciples of Freedom CHAPTER XIII 7/17
But for all that he should stand fast.
If he has the courage so to do, he gives a fine example of intellectual freedom. VI It will serve us to consider some prejudices, free-thinking and religious.
First the free-thinker.
He has a prejudice very hard to kill. If I believe in the beginning what Bernard Shaw has found out thus late in the day, that priests are not as bad as they are painted, the free-thinker would deny me intellectual freedom.
The fact of my right to think the matter out and come to that conclusion would count for nothing.
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