...but the belief persists among free speech libertarians today: "And though all the windes of doctrin were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be...Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the wors, in a free and open encounter."' 5 The central tenet of marketplace arguments is that truth will...

...in a continual progression, they sicken into a muddv pool of conformity and tradition; and although all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injury by licensing and prohibiting to doubt her strength.—John 'Milton (1659). ALCOHOLISM Index...

...Books, 1960], p. 40) a sentiment familiar to us not only from Plato but also from Milton's Areopagitica: "Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Milton, Works, 1:326. The problem remains, however, in what "market" (or forum) is such an encounter...

...exceeds its famous excerpt about the wrestling match of truth and error: "Let her [Truth] and Falshood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter" (746). It is a tract for the chosen status of the English nation; a defense of the Protestant Reformation;...

...Stuart Mill, and Tocqueville influential. He sometimes quoted Milton, who in Areopagitica had asked, "Who ever knew truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?" Rarely, though, did the contest for truth occur in a fair arena, Heffner believed. He liked Mill when...

...and to intellectual free trade through the prohibitions on printing in particular strangles truth. ‘Let her and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the wors, in a free and open encounter,' Milton asks (CPW 2:561). Invested with a new sense of liberty...

...Smith 1988, and Sunstein 2003. 25. Jefferson echoes John Milton's defense of intellectual freedom in Areopagitica. “And though all the winds of doctrine...put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?” 26. When other possibilities are being realized simultaneously with the given project—as in parallel...

...agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...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...

...agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...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...

...agitation. The temple of Janus with his two controversal faces might now not unsignificantly be set open. And though all the winds of doctrine were let loose...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...