I think I have a right to ask that you should have some proof of this statement.

I think I can show you that similar views are expressed by the leading writers of to-day--not, perhaps, in precisely the same language-- for it is not to be expected that the paper which is addressed to the many will be conducted on just the same level, either intellectually or aesthetically speaking, as a publication, in the form of an expensive book, which is only intended for men of education, intelligence and leisure; but such views are put before the public by the most prominent writers of the day.
You will, of course, expect to find differences in the mode of expression, and as a matter of course, differences of taste; but I submit that differences of taste affect the question very little unless, as I have said, they actually lead to breaches of the peace.

But in a case like this there ought to be no distinction on grounds of taste.

Surely the man who says a thing in one way is not to be punished, while the man who says the same thing in another way is to go scot free.

You cannot make a distinction between men on grounds of taste.