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Example sentences for "free thought"

  • There is no free thought, and where there is no free thought there is no intellectual life.

  • There is as little free love in Ireland as there is free thought; men have ceased to care for women and women to care for men.

  • All the forms of higher faculty seem to have declined together; and as the decay proceeded the official hostility to all forms of free thought strengthened.

  • On the other hand, the continuous stress of militarism was in ordinary course much more favourable to fanaticism than to free thought; and to fanaticism the Koran, like the Bible, was and is a perpetual stimulant.

  • It suddenly disappeared from public life, and gave place to its translation,--free thought.

  • Free thought aims to free man of all authority, it aims at severing from religion his entire existence, marriage, state, schools, and likewise science.

  • The history of the censorship of the press and of the repression of free thought in Germany until the year 1848 is a sad chapter.

  • Dare to use thine own understanding," is therefore the motto of free thought.

  • No, but we live in an age of free thought.

  • What we are looking at is not the boyhood of free thought; it is the old age and ultimate dissolution of free thought.

  • This is what makes so futile the warnings of the orthodox and the boasts of the advanced about the dangerous boyhood of free thought.

  • The greatest of the elder generation of poets in France, Victor Hugo, notwithstanding his passionate tendency to free thought, displays the remnants of a vague deism, colored with pantheism.

  • There was nothing priestlike about him, and he was wholly devoid of the pathos of a martyr of free thought.

  • I believe in free thought, in reason, observation and experience.

  • The Spiritualists believe in free thought, in freedom of speech, and they are willing to hear the other side--willing to hear me.

  • Civilization is the child of free thought.

  • The civilization of this century is not the child of faith, but of unbelief--the result of free thought.

  • He did more to bring about religious toleration than any man in the galaxy of those who strove for the privilege of free thought.

  • There has not been a generation of free thought yet.

  • Less fortunate than these were the famous martyrs of free thought, Dolet, Servetus, and Tyndale.

  • Among the Mohammedans there was a certain amount of free thought, provoked by their knowledge of ancient Greek speculation.

  • Protestantism, in truth, has never been more than a half-way house or halting-place between Catholicism and what may variously be described as free thought or science or rationalism.

  • But against them were drawn up the battalions of heresy, free thought, political insurgence in the modern world.

  • What we must represent to ourselves is the activity of free thought; we have to present the history of the world of thought as it has arisen and produced itself.

  • Thus Bentley, writing as Phileleutherus Lipsiensis against Collins, claims to have been "train'd up and exercis'd in Free Thought from my youth.

  • It had its virtue for an age of mental bondage, because it preserved some pulse of the spirit of free thought.

  • I do not wish to minimize the importance of free thought in this sense.

  • But there is also a wider sense of "free thought," which I regard as of still greater importance.

  • Let us begin by trying to be clear as to what we mean by "free thought.

  • The Jews and Christians of this city did homage to the spirit of free thought.


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