free-seeing

Updated: May 11, 2025

Dante had not put out his eyes, or tied shackles on himself; he was at home in that Catholicism of his, a free-seeing soul in it, if many a poor Hogstraten, Tetzel, and Dr. Eck had now become slaves in it. Liberty of judgment?

Thomas Carlyle - On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History