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Extracts from Literature
Tom Pinch Goes Up to London
Tom Pinch, who has seen at last what kind of man his apprentice-master Seth Pecksniff is, leaves Salisbury to seek a new life in London.
by Charles Dickens 1812-1870
John Stuart Mill
Three Aspects of Liberty
John Stuart Mill set out three kinds of liberty essential to a truly free society: freedom of conscience, of tastes, and of association.
by John Stuart Mill 1806-1873
Social Intolerance
Even where freedom of speech and conscience are not curtailed by law, there is another kind of censorship that is just as destructive to progress.
The Decencies of Debate
Abusive language, straw-man arguments and downright ‘fake news’ should have no place in civilised debate, but censoring them is far worse.
Liberty and Prosperity
The Blaze of Truth and Liberty
Macaulay recalled an Italian fable about a fairy doomed every now and then to take the form of a snake, and drew from her a lesson about Liberty.
by Thomas Babington Macaulay 1800-1859
Indian History
Unrivalled Grace
Sir Henry Craik had heard such glowing reports of Agra’s Taj Mahal, that he was afraid it might prove to be an anticlimax.
by Sir Henry Craik 1846-1927
