 This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.  Kentucky Lawyer - Page 28by Mac Swinford - 2010 - 136 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...be handsomely and comfortably lodged, and to liberal salaries will be added lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what is passing... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 414 pages
...of the efforts which were to be made to procure worthy professors for the university, he added : " This institution will be based on the illimitable...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error, so long as reason is left free to combat it." Years after Jefferson had been laid in his... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Education - 1890 - 414 pages
...of the efforts which were to be made to procure worthy professors for the university, he added : " This institution will be based on the illimitable...mind. For here we . are. not afraid to follow truth whereyer^it^may Isady-Hor,.to4olerate any error, so long as reasonjsjeft frge^taxDmhat it." Years after... | |
 | John Cleaves Henderson - Biography & Autobiography - 1890 - 408 pages
...worthy professors for the university, he added : " This institution will be based on the illimitv able freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error, so long as reason is left free to combat it." Years after Jefferson had been laid in his... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1917 - 428 pages
...sciences. Jefferson to Mr. Roscoe: Monticello. 1820. This institution (the University of Virginia) will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. Jefferson to Dr. Thomas Cooper: Monticello,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1901 - 622 pages
...most important of these new principles. Again and again he wrote: "This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Freedom to investigate and freedom to study,... | |
 | Universities and colleges - 1918 - 476 pages
...University, born in the brain of Jefferson, that its mission has ever been, as expressed by its Founder, "for here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." In former annuals here in times of peace men... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Political science - 1900 - 1504 pages
...CF VOLNEY. iv, 572. (W., 1805.) 2748. EBBOB, Toleration of. — Here, [the University of Virginia] we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead. nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. — To MR. ROSCOE. vii, 196. (M.. 1820.1 2749.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1903
...be handsomely and comfortably lodged, and to liberal salaries will be added lucrative perquisites. This institution will be based on the illimitable...not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor tp tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. We are looking with wonder at what... | |
 | Education - 1903 - 290 pages
...and freedom of learning for students. Again and again he wrote: " This institution will be based upon the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here...follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Freedom to investigate and freedom to study,... | |
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