Submitted by Donald E. Baumeister (not verified) on September 19, 2007 - 08:37.
Mr. Daly wrote, "Big movements can begin in small spaces..." The sentence reminded me of a famous dissent by Justice Oliver W. Holmes:
"Every idea is an incitement. It offers for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm. Eloquence may set fire to reason. But whatever may be thought of the redundant discourse before us it had no chance of starting a present conflagration."
Comment on Mr. Daly's Editorial
Submitted by Donald E. Baumeister (not verified) on September 19, 2007 - 08:37.
Mr. Daly wrote, "Big movements can begin in small spaces..." The sentence reminded me of a famous dissent by Justice Oliver W. Holmes:
"Every idea is an incitement. It offers for belief and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement in the narrower sense is the speaker's enthusiasm. Eloquence may set fire to reason. But whatever may be thought of the redundant discourse before us it had no chance of starting a present conflagration."
Gitlow v. New York (1925) 268 US 652