The Liberty of the Press, Speech, and Public Worship: Being Commentaries on the Liberty of the Subject and the Laws of England (Classic Reprint)

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While the minds of governors before the invention of printing were blank as to the Security of Thought and Speech, it was otherwise with the Security of Public Worship. With regard to this there was no blank, but on the contrary, there was in its place an active and virulent maxim at work. This maxim led all govern ments to take up a false position, which, after a long series of uncandid confessions and ill-disguised retreats, has at length been all but finally abandoned. This was the maxim, that there was only one true form of religious worship,1 that each governor had already discovered it.

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