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The audience it has, if small, is an audience which never misses its pronouncements whether it agrees or disagrees with them, and which is absorbed in its opinions, its statement of fact and its arguments. Look narrowly at History and you will find that all great _reforms_ have started thus: not through a widespread control acting downwards, but through spontaneous energy, local and intensive, acting upwards. THE AUDIENCE IT HAS IF SMALL IS AN AUDIENCE WHICH NEVER MISSES ITS PRONOUNCEMENTS WHETHER IT AGREES OR DISAGREES WITH THEM AND WHICH IS ABSORBED IN ITS OPINIONS ITS STATEMENT OF FACT AND ITS ARGUMENTS LOOK NARROWLY AT HISTORY AND YOU WILL FIND THAT ALL GREAT REFORMS HAVE STARTED THUS NOT THROUGH A WIDESPREAD CONTROL ACTING DOWNWARDS BUT THROUGH SPONTANEOUS ENERGY LOCAL AND INTENSIVE ACTING UPWARDS
ut suffer from that eccentricity to general opinion of which I have spoken. I had a half-tragic and half-comic experience of the economic difficulty; of the difficulty of obtaining information; of the difficulty in distribution, and all the rest of it. The editor of "The New Age" could provide an exactly similar record. I had experience, and after me Mr. Cecil Chesterton had experience, of the threats levelled by the professional politicians and their modern lawyers against the free expression of truth, and I have no doubt that the editor of "The New Age" could provide similar testimony. As for the Free Press in Ireland, we all know how _that_ is dealt with. It is simply suppressed at the will of the police. In the face of such experience, and in spite of it, I am yet of the deliberate opinion that the Free Press will succeed. Now let me give my reasons for this audacious conclusion. XIV The first thing to note is that the Free Press is not read perfunctorily, but with close attention.  CHAPTER FOURTEEN OF THE FREE PRESS BY HILAIRE BELLOC RECORDING BY SHAME MC LEAN THE FIRST THING TO NOTE IS THAT THE FREE PRESS IS NOT READ PERFUNCTORILY BUT WITH CLOSE ATTENTION
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