...shun the great.— PoPE. Then Mary could feel her heart's blood curdle cold. — SoUTHEY. Let truth and falsehood grapple ; who ever knew truth put to the worse in a frce and open encounter ? — MILToN. Let us not disparage that nature that is common to all men, for...

...unchewed notions and suppositions. THE ALL-CONQUERING POWER OF TRUTH. Though all (he winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be...licensing and prohibiting, to misdoubt her strength. Lot her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worst in a free and open encounter? Her...

...fear. How forcible, on this point, are the words of Milton : — "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth be...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and...

...Milton:— "And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so truth bo in the field, we do injuriously by licensing and prohibiting...truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter? Her confuting is the best and surest suppressing. He who hears what praying there is for light and...

...of religious sentiment.' this conviction with rare eloquence : Though all the winds of doctrine be let loose to play upon the earth, so TRUTH be in the field, we do injuriously to doubt her strength. Let her and FALSEHOOD grapple. Whoever knew TRUTH put to the worse by a free...

...credible claim increases, it is simply harder to place trust reasonably. Milton asked rhetorically 'Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' Today the very prospect of a 'free and open encounter' is drowning in the supposedly transparent world...

...the long run. I do not detect in Brandeis's language the echo of Milton's famous rhetorical question: "Who ever knew truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?"77 From personal experience, Brandeis 77. See MILTON, supra nole 2, at 746. knew plenty...

...therefore not forbid nor hinder the continuing search for it.34 He welcomed freedom as the test of truth; "who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?"35 and saw that in such an encounter diversity of belief was necessary and desirable. "If...

...new birth is necessarily accompanied by dirt (iv, 73). 'Who ever', wrote Milton in the Areopagitica, 'knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?' True: but the encounter is rarely free and open; all the forces of society combine, like Pharoah, to...

...religious connotations that went with it, and when he wrote, "Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple; whoever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?" he was speaking as a Puritan confident that God would guide people through their religious conscience...