Civilization
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...multiplicity of fashions might almost be taken as a measure of a civilization's advancement.


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Some of the said means by which they have advanced their Trade, and thereby improved their Estates, are... Their Toleration of different Opinions in matters of Religion... many industrious People of other Countreys, that dissent from the Established Government of their own Churches, resort to them with their Families and Estates, and after a few years cohabitation with them, become of the same Common interest.


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...if a growing indifference to objects of a public nature, should prevail, and, under any free constitution, put an end to those disputes of party, and silence that noise of dissension, which generally accompany the exercise of freedom, we may venture to prognosticate corruption to the national manners, as well as remissness to the national spirit.


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...no society can prosper if new and different ideas are arbitrarily repressed.


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...nothing can with more conscience, more equity, nothing more protestantly can be permitted, than a free and lawful debate at all times by writing, conference, or disputation of what opinion soever...


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...people know how to talk in more or less the sense that spiders know how to spin webs.


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...the medievil laws and customs which prevent full and free dissemination of information concerning scientific Birth Control should be sent to the scrap heap along with rack, the thumb screws and other outworn instruments of torture.


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But those who know only their own opinions, and condemn all others; those who think that the light shines for them alone, and all other men walk in darkness; those who scruple to communicate with foreign religions, should surely be entitled enemies of the human race.


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Have not time, the progress of reason, good books, and the humanizing influence of society had an effect on the leaders of these people?


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     Civilization -- Added : March 12, 2020

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