Better A Thousandfold Abuse Of Free Speech

God Is A Spirit. Jesus Was Led Up Of The Spirit To Be Tempted Of The Devil; And It Is Also True That Spirits Are Very Likely To Lead Men To The Devil. Too Intimate Acquaintance With Whisky Toddy Overnight Is Often Followed By The Delirium Tremens And Blue-devils On The Morrow. We Advise Our Readers To Eschew Alike Spirituous And Spiritual Mixtures. They Interfere Sadly With Sober Thinking, And Play The Devil With Your Brains.

Probably They Had Good Reason For Omitting It. A Profane Mind Might Make A Jest Of An Apostle Half Seas Over, And Ridicule An Apostolic Gate-keeper Who Couldn't Keep His Head Above Water.

The Ameliorating March Of The Last Few Centuries Has Been Initiated By The Heretics Of Each Age, Though I Concede That The Men And Women Denounced And Persecuted As Infidels By The Pious Of One Century Are Frequently Claimed As Saints By The Pious Of A Later Generation.

Without Free Speech No Search For Truth Is Possible; Without Free Speech No Discovery Of Truth Is Useful.

If Special Honor Is Claimed For Any, Then Heresy Should Have It As The Truest Servitor Of Human Kind.