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The Evolution of the Law of Blasphemy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Courtney Kenny
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Extract

Prosecutions for the crime of blasphemy are rare. But one which took place recently in London has elicited from the Home Secretary an utterance which is of interest and of importance.

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Research Article
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The Cambridge Law Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 1922 , pp. 127 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge Law Journal and Contributors 1922

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References

1 Judge Story's political animosity to Jefferson led him to treat the detection without his accustomed fairness (Life I, 431).

2 “The Emperor Julian, so celebrated for every Christian virtue that he was called ‘Julian the Apostle’”; (Allsop's Letters of S. T. Coleridge, p. 53).

3 Mr. Gour, an Indian commentator on this Code, remarks gravely that “The wounding of feelings must be more than sentimental; which is easy to acquire if it costs nothing.”