| 1942 - 584 Seiten
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have... | |
| United States. Court of Claims, Audrey Bernhardt - 1963 - 778 Seiten
...an idea, * * *. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. [Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6, pp. 180-181, HA Washington ed. (1854).] Justice Holmes, in an... | |
| Carroll Pursell - 1990 - 340 Seiten
..."Its peculiar character too," said Jefferson, "is that no one possesses the less because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine receives light without darkening me." Consequently, Jefferson conceived government's role to be that of disseminating information useful... | |
| Najib Harabi - 1996 - 370 Seiten
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights bis taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to... | |
| Peter Groves - 1997 - 787 Seiten
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have... | |
| Staughton Lynd - 1997 - 318 Seiten
...himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea...taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. 55 These words suggested that the communal search for truth is no more compatible with the right to... | |
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