The History of Freedom in Antiquity (26 February 1877)

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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity.

Most of this, I suppose, is undisputed, and calls for no enlargement. But the weight of opinion is against me when I exhort you never to debase the moral curre…