a symbol for the violation of free expression.

言论自由遭受侵害的突出标志
It sets the case for the individual committed to the examined life

在此案例中个人忠实反思人生
over and against a bigoted and prejudiced multitude.

反抗固执偏见的大众
The clearest statement of this view of, again,

对这种观点最清晰的解读
the individual set against the mob in some ways, is found in a work of

即为某种意义上的个人反对群氓
a very famous civil libertarian of the nineteenth century,

首次出现于19世纪著名的公民自论者
a man named John Stuart Mill.

约翰·斯图亚特·密尔的著作之中
In his famous tract called simply On Liberty,

在其著名短篇《论自由》中
Mill wrote,

密尔写道
"Mankind can hardly be too often reminded that

"向人类提醒这样一件事总难嫌其太频
there was once a man named Socrates

从前有过一个名叫苏格拉底
between whom and the legal authorities of his time

在他和他那时候的法律权威