The Savoyard Vicar

Mischievousness of substituting spiritual self-indulgence for reason

[CHAPTER IV. RELIGIOUS CONFORMITY.]

Compromise in Expression

Touches religion rather than politics

Hume on non-resistance

Reason why rights of free speech do not exactly coincide with rights of free thought

Digression into the matter of free speech

Dissent no longer railing and vituperative

Tendency of modern free thought to assimilate some elements from the old faith