t theology. See his _First Principles_, pt. i. ch.
vi, Sec. 34; paragraph beginning,--'Whoever hesitates to utter that which
he thinks the highest truth, lest it should be too much in advance of
the time, may reassure himself by looking at his acts from an impersonal
point of view,' etc.]

[Footnote 29: _Speech on Conciliation with America_.]

[Footnote 30: 'Toute enormite dans les esprits d'un certain ordre n'est
souvent qu'une grande vue prise hors du temps et du lieu, et ne gardant
aucun rapport reel avec les objets environnants. Le propre de certaines
prunelles ardentes est de franchir du regard les intervalles et de les
supprimer. Tantot c'est une idee qui retarde de plusieurs siecles, et
que ces vigoureux esprits se figurent encore presente et vivante; tantot
c'est une idee qui avance, et qu'ils croient incontinent realisable. M.
de Couaen etait ainsi; il voyait 1814 des 1804, et de la une
superiorite; mais il jugeait 1814 possible des 1804 ou 1805, et de la
tout un chimerique entassement.--Voila un point blanc a l'horizon,
chacun jurerait que c'est un nuage. "C'est une montagne," dit le
voyageur a l'oeil d'aigle; mais s'il ajoute: "Nous y arriverons ce soir,
dans deux heures;" si, a chaque heure de marche, il crie avec
emportement: "Nous y sommes," et le veut demontrer, il choque les
voisins avec sa poutre, et donne l'avantage aux yeux moins percants et
plus habitues a la plaine.'--Ste. Beuve's _Volupte_, p. 262]

[Footnote 31: It is sometimes convenient to set familiar arguments down
once more; so I venture to reprint in a note at the end of the chapter a
short exposition of the doctrine of liberty, which I had occasion to
make in considering Sir J.F. Stephen's vigorous attack on that
doctrine.]

[Footnote 32: Mr. Samuel Bailey's _Essays on the Formation and
Publication of Opinions_, etc., p. 138, (1826.)]

[Footnote 33: There is a sense, and a most important sense, in which
liberty is a positive force. It is its robust and bracing influence on
character, which makes wise men prize freedom and strive for the
enlargement of its province. As Mr. Mill expressed this:--'It is of
importance not only what men do, but what manner of men they are that do
it,' Milton pointed to the positive effect of liberty on character in
the following passage:--'They are not skilful considerers of human
things who imagine to remove sin by removing the matter of sin. Though
ye take from a covetous man his treasure, he has yet one