Mill quotes from Burke’s speeches in the Trial of Hastings of. “I am not afraid,” said Burke, “of the liberty of the press and I am not afraid of the licentiousness of the press: but I own, I am afraid of its venality.” See Mill’s India, iii, 113. The most dangerous appetite of the people the most dangerous tendency of the press: is not towards calumny, but false praise of public men. X There is not an appetite in the people to hear calumny: This is a calumny of the people. But in the second place, there is a radical difference, between what people are to believe, and what they are to do.
It is pleasure in one alone of its shapes, that you now have any fear about. I believe punishing even that is very useless. Objection-no body doubts the utility of morals-yet you punish any body that writes contrary to morals. He also, however, uses X as ‘versus’ or ‘against.’ These X’s seem to have been added after the passage was written and to be a form of ‘NB’ for Mill in this section. Note: In some places Mill has put an X at the head of a comment or quotation.
Did hobbes write sidenotes himself free#
These are two free speaking, and free writing. He wishes to shut up the passages of truth. The archbishop of Canterbury don’t believe in the bible because he will not allow free discussion. Why? What is the proof? Because they desire to punish free discussion about it. Castlereagh and Canning do not believe that the constitution is good. When they call it good, they stand convicted of telling what they do not believe. X A government which is afraid of the liberty of the press, proclaims aloud its conviction of its own rottenness. Note: In Prose Works, III 24 see 15va1.Ĭhurchmen give no better proof evidence of their the truth of their system love of the truth, than, by stopping up like a besieging enemy, stopping up all her passages both by word and writing. “Did he not forbid and hinder all effectual search of truth? Nay, like a besieging enemy, stop all her passages, both by word and writing?” Milton, Eikonoclastes, § XIII. And it would be too much to expect fidelity from strangers upon such an occasion. Gentlemen, I felt that this was too unsafe for which to draw upon my friends.
If any gentleman at the bar were to exert himself faithfully against its punishment, all chance of success promotion is gone for ever. And assuredly, gentlemen, if it had been any other kind of cause, if it had been a question of meum and tuum, or of an imputed delinquency, of any of the common sorts, I should have resorted to the approved and practiced skill of the gentlemen of the bar, some of whom of the first eminence would have been well disposed to have excited their splendid talents in the cause of the friendship with which they honour me.īut this, gentlemen, is a peculiar offence. I have all my life time, from a natural timidity, shrunk from that kind of display, not because I condemned it, but because my feelings required a different deportment. It is not from any overweening vanity that I shall debate desire of making shewing to the world what I forsooth can atchieve in public speaking. Gentlemen, I hope my appearance this day before you to speak for myself, will not operate in the minds of any of you, as a prejudice against me. The more general title has been chosen as he intermittently raises the universal arguments relating to the foundations of this subject. Mill occasionally refers back to the sections in CPB I using that title as well. An alternative title is undoubtedly Law of Libel. This section, noting the caveats mentioned above, can be fairly accurately dated as coming for the most part from late in the 1810-1820 period. Unfortunately, it is much more difficult to date the separate items from the nature of the hand with small scraps One needs a paragraph or more to make that type of judgment. Some later examples of continuous arguments are written on scraps that can be dated several years apart. The first is postmarked ( 27r- 27v), the second group in Law & Law Reform ( 33v), are on envelopes postmarked and. Note, for example, the notes on Hobbes’s Leviathan, which are not in his hand, with the exception of the title added at the bottom or the head of each piece. As paper was, relatively speaking, rather expensive at this time, Mill obviously kept larger scraps for future use. One word of caution should be issued about such dating. Given the fact that this section is a compilation of a large number of scraps and notes, many of them written on the backs of letters or postmarked covers, dating this material in terms of its time of writing is not difficult.
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