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Show U ni tarianism in Utah possible except on the part of Papists and deniers of the Trinity. Despite persecution, in part perhaps because of it, the new liberalism was growing. Milton, in that same century, taught Arian Christianity not only very explicitly in his "Christian dissent Doctrine" but also for those who had eyes to see and ears to hear in his great epical poem "Paradise Lost." He had fought, moreover, the kind of battle Unitarians fighting, because it of all for Religious Liberty: not by find it. what were interested in the very breath of life to them. First "To be still searching what we know know, still closing up truth This is the .. . we was golden rule in arithmetic, and makes up the best to truth as we well as in theology harmony in a Church; not as the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds" for Intellectual [Areopagitica J. Liberty: "Let Truth and falsehood Secondly grapple. Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting to misdoubt her strength" [AreopagiticaJ. Third, for Freedom of Speech and the Press: "He who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, but he who destroys a good book itself." Sometimes ages do not suffice to recover the loss of a rejected truth, and the kind of massacre involved kills reason rejection of that seasoned life of man preserved in suppression in great books, "strikes breath of or reason at that ethereal and fifth essence, the itself, and slays an immortality rather than a life" [Areopagitica]. A fourth - a liberty without which the others are unreal freedom of inquiry, freedom for intellectual and valueless if her waters flow progress: "Truth is a streaming fountain; - 260 not in a perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool |
