Excerpt from Brownson's Defence: Defence of the Article on the Laboring Classes From the Boston Quarterly Review
I. One objection urged against us is, not that the doctrines of our article are unsound, but that now is not the time for putting them forth. The public mind, it is said, is not prepared for them, and therefore will not give them a favorable reception. They will bring much reproach upon him who puts them forth, and that reproach will necessarily fall, to a greater or less extent, upon his friends, and the political party with which he may be associated.
This objection resolves itself into two; one relating to the proper time for bringing out one's ideas and the other to the obligation of a man to withhold what he believes to be great truths, for fear of compromit ting a party with which he may sometimes act. We shall consider the last first.
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