Note 495 — Chapter VI · - CONCLUSION
Reading edition
J. B. Bury, A History of Freedom of Thought (Home Univ. Lib.), p. 14. ‘A long time was needed to arrive at the conclusion that coercion of opinion is a mistake, and only a part of the world is yet convinced. That conclusion, so far as I can judge, is the most important ever reached by man. It was the issue of a continuous struggle between reason and authority....’