"I call that mind free which resists the bondage of habit, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which receives new truth as an angel from heaven, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect; I call that mind free which does not cower to human opinion, which feels itself accountable to a higher tribunal than man's, which respects itself too much to be the slave or tool of the many or the few..... which guards its empire over itself as nobler than the empire of the world. William Ellery Channing.
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