The English are no nearer than they were a hundred years ago to knowing what Jefferson really meant when he said that God had created all men equal.
The theory of free speech, that truth is so much larger and stranger and more many-sided than we know of, that it is very much better at all costs to hear everyone's account of it, is a theory which has been justified on the whole by experiment, but which remains a very daring and even a very surprising theory. It is really one of the great discoveries of the modern time.
For religion all men are equal, as all pennies are equal, because the only value of any of them is that they bear the image of the king.
