...stifled. If a book is in error, free discussion will reveal the errors. As Milton writes so eloquently: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. (JM 50) Licensing, he says, in...

...Books, 1967} and The System of Freedom of Expression (New York: Vintage Books, i970), for a survey. t4. 'And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?' Milton's argument was later echoed by Jefferson in his t779 Virginia 'Bill for...

...rightly faulted for frustrating the quest for truth and the citizens' right to know. Indeed, "And through all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon...grapple. Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Areopagitica (1644) Finally, it is upon us to ensure that even if strained in...

...the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing (Cambridge: Deighton, Bell & Co., 1973). Milton writes (p. 35): "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" 2 JS Mill, Utilitarianism, Liberty, and Representative Government (London: JM...

...John Milton argued for this freedom in his classic apology for freedom of conscience, Areopagitica: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?4 Milton argues for a level playing field, realizing that truth will ultimately...

...laid by without perusal. And now the time in special is, by privilege to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation....grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there...

...laid by without perusal. And now the time in special is, by privilege to write and speak what may help to the further discussing of matters in agitation....grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there...

...John Milton argued against prepublication censorship of religious views, in the classic Areopagitica: "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" 3 Milton's argument that Truth and Falsehood should be allowed to grapple in a...

...personal problem into a fascinating treatise justifying the establishment of a marketplace of ideas: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter.21 Human beings seek fulfillment in multitudinous ways, but there are some, like...

...(the Inquisition, the Council of Trent, etc.) without accomplishing any redeeming social goal, thus: And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter? As Vincent Blasi interestingly pointed out, one must resist the temptation to interpret...