Deatiled overview of the history of the principle of freedom of thought from early Greece to the 19th century.
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CHAPTER I FREEDOM OF THOUGHT AND THE FORCES AGAINST IT (INTRODUCTORY) IT is a common saying that thought is free.
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A History of Freedom of Thought By J. B. Bury IT is a common saying that thought is free.
IT is a common saying that thought is free.
This extraordinary freedom results not from America’s culture of tolerance, but from fourteen words in the constitution: the free expression clauses of the First Amendment.InFreedom for the Thought That We Hate, two-time Pulitzer Prize ...
With striking eloquence and clarity of expression, Bury succinctly describes the struggle of reason in the search for truth from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of ...