Mr.Justice Stephen said well, that no temporal punishment should be inflicted for blasphemy unless it led to a breach of the peace.

I have no objection to that, provided we are indicted for a breach of the peace.

Very little breach of the peace might make a good case of blasphemy.

A breach of the peace in a case like this must not be constructive; it must be actual.

They might have put somebody in the witness-box who would have said that reading the _Freethinker_ had impaired his digestion and disturbed his sleep.