If the view is true in part only, the separation of truth and falsehood is accomplished most successfully in a free intellectual competition, a process of dissociation by rational criticism, in which those who hold the false opinion are driven to defend their position on rational grounds.
This quote emphasizes the value of free intellectual competition in distinguishing truth from falsehood.
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But if the Church is not a supernatural institution, what is its nature?
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
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