[Peace-discuss] Against the limits of allowable debate

[C. G. Estabrook]

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                        --Euripides

    /This is true liberty, when free-born persons,/
    /Having to advise the public, may speak free,/
    /Which s/he who can, and will, deserves high praise;/
    /Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace:/
    /What can be juster in a state than this?/

 From AREOPAGITICA; A SPEECH OF Mr. JOHN MILTON For the Liberty of Unlicens'd 
PRINTING, To the Parliament of ENGLAND.

Pulbished this day in 1644 at the height of the English Civil War, it is titled 
after a speech of the Athenian orator Isocrates. Milton argues against 
Parliaments's Licensing Order of 1643, noting that such censorship had never 
been a part of classical Greek and Roman society. It was distributed via 
pamphlet, defying the same publication ban that Milton argued against.



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