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We Demand Of Our Political Life Greater Certainty And Greater Perfection Than We Demand Of Our Personal Life.

Every Step By Which Men Add To Their Knowledge And Skills Is A Step Also By Which They Can Control Other Men.

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?

God Is What Man Finds That Is Divine In Himself. It Is The Best Way Man Can Behave In The Ordinary Occasions Of Life, And The Farthest Point To Which Man Can Stretch Himself.