and the consequences of their dangerous principles should be made manifest.
But, Sir, you are not to be told that strong argument is the reverse of intolerance, and that the detection of falsehood, instead of being persecution, is a benefit conferred upon society. Were the case otherwise, and were Vice and Error to have full liberty to walk up and down the earth without exposure and confutation, because that such an opposition tends to abridge the means of mischief, then is it high time that you should close your critical labours, and, by consigning all the volumes of your valuable journal to the flames, proclaim your recantation aloud to the world. But if you are not prepared for such a sacrifice, and if you still think it a duty to continue in the office which you have hitherto filled with general credit, let it be seen that neither the fear nor the love of man has