ABSTRACT
There are two modes in which speech may exceed the ordained limits. It may be used for the propagation of slander, which, as the people have seen in a foregoing chapter, involves a disregard of moral obhgation; or it may be used in inciting and directing another to injure a third party. Liberty of speech, then, like liberty of action, may be claimed by each, to the fullest extent compatible with the equal rights of all. It is an assertion often made, as of indisputable truth, that government ought to guarantee to its subjects “ security and a sense of security.“ There may be much danger in placing an invalid under the regimen proper to people in robust health. Similarly crude, however, are the ideas of those who infer that unlimited liberty of speech is improper, because productive in certain states of society of disastrous results.
