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THE BLACK HAND IN THE EDITORIAL ROOM

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Dec 10, 1914

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 91, No. 52.

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THE BLACK HAND IN THE EDITORIAL ROOM

So, too, the liberty of thinking and of publishing whatsoever one likes, without any hindrance, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils. . . .
*Gregory XVI, in his encyclical letter Mirari vos, of date Aug. 15, 1832, inveighed with weighty words against the sophisms, which even at his time were being publicly inculcated; namely, . . . that it is lawful for every one to publish his own views, whatever they may be. . . .*
We must now consider briefly liberty of speech and liberty of the press. It is hardly necessary to say that there can be no such right as this, if it be not used in moderation, and if it pass beyond the bounds and end of all true liberty. . . . If unbridled license of speech and of writing be granted to all, nothing will remain sacred and inviolate. . . . Wherefore this liberty [of teaching] also, in order that it may deserve the name, must be kept within certain limits, lest the office of teaching be turned with impunity into an instrument of corruption. . . . From what has been said, it follows that it is quite unlawful, to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, of speech, of writing, or of worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man.—Extracts from the Encyclical Letter Immortale Dei, “The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII,” New York, Benziger Brothers, 1903, pages 123-161.**

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