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Principles of Freedom

CHAPTER XIII
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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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