"FOR FREEDOM"
"For my part," said Sir Arthur Quills-Couch, in a lecture reported in the Cambridge Daily News, "I cannot see how anyone can study our English literature, for six centuries now a 'glory of our blood and State,' and yet a most 'substantial thing,' without feeling that in his blood and State this liberty otf thought is not only trad : tion, but a dominant tradition, web and woof, or fail to detect the sleight that would pass it off on us as bastard, to be no better than a sophism, offering fact, repulsive to the intelligence., He quoted Wordsworth's: " 'We must be free dr die, who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold Which Milton held-—.' "Trite words," he went on, "but as true to-day and imperative as when they were written. For what is the alternative? What the dirty trump card ever up dogma's sleeve to 1 counter liberty of thought? It is suppression, tyranny, in one final word, force."
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Waipa Post, Volume 49, Issue 3504, 11 August 1934, Page 4
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