Harold J. Laski: “He took the facts as phenomena to be explained rather than as illustrations of some favorite thesis to be maintained in…”

Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.

The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.

It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.

The intolerance may be Catholic, when it insists that a unity of outlook is essential for the preservation of society; or it may be Protestant when, as with Calvin and the Socinians, it holds that the blasphemous nature of the belief…