Now as a matter of fact such a review would strike me as, on the whole, reasonably fair. The first chapter wanders a tri?e because the definition of liberalism which I make of a tolerant and rationalistic temper, best ex pressed, perhaps, by Voltaire 's letter to Helvetius, I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it — is so simple that I prefer to a merely verbal discussion an attempt to put concretely what this attitude implies in life. For that reason I chose the fact of conscription in modern States.