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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49869)	8/23/2006 4:26:52 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50167

Opinion and free thought If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. John Stuart M To think is to speculate with images. Giordano Bruno GG Giordano Bruno, one of the most important Copernican thinkers of the European Renaissance, proposed the idea of a ‘heroic philosophy’. He saw philosophy as an active and passionate quest for truth. He left behind him a number of esoteric and philosphical works including The Ash Wednesday Supper. The report from the Fraternity of St. John the Beheaded is the only documentary account of Bruno’s martyrdom on 17 February 1600 to be considered authentic by the Catholic church. It was published in 1889: . . . But he insisted till the end always in his damned refractoriness and twisted brain and his mind with a thousand errors; yes, he didn’t give up his stubborness, not even when the court ushers took him away to the Campo de' Fiori. There his clothes were taken off, he was bound to a stake and burned alive [e quivi spogliato nudo e legato a un palo fu brusciato vivo]. In all this time he was accompanied by our fraternity, who sang constant litanies, while the comforters tried till the last moment to break his stubborn resistance, till he gave up a miserable and pitiable life. cybermusings.blogspot.com