Spencer Heath Archive

1925

Pencilings in the margin of page 48, Walter Lippmann, “Our Need for a Public Philosophy,” pp.43-49, The Atlantic Monthly, 1955?

 

 

 

 

 

 

/Lippmann: “And because the purpose of the confrontation is to discern truth, there are rules of evidence and of parliamentary procedure, there are codes of fair dealing and fair comment, by which a loyal man will consider himself bound when he exercises the right to publish opinions.”/

        (Emphasis by Heath)

 

 

Discernment of truth is not the purpose served by parliamentary procedure. Not “truth” but the will of the body.