Social discussion becomes Carlyle’s ultimate question of “Can I kill thee or canst thou kill me?” Every utterance is necessarily a challenge; and suppressed because so taken; every association is a conspiracy and attacked because so imagined.
He illustrates how social discussions can devolve into confrontations when trust is lacking.
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What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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