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Excerpt from Essays, Selected From Contributions to the Edinburgh Review, Vol. 2 of 2: Theological and Political
Same principles would of course justify the Papists in persecuting the Protestants, and Protestants in per scouting the Papists; and every form, either of truth or error, that happens to be established, in persecuting every exercise of private judgment that happens to be at variance with it. It must he confessed that these are comprehensive principles of persecution, but we do not like them the worse for that: they are at all events consistent, however indescribably absurd. The accident of previous possession determines, it seems, the right to suppress, and whether it be truth or error, it is all the same: only, as truth is one, while error is multiform, error will have the advantage of this ruthless consistency in a hundred cases to one.
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