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Publicity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠debate refutes the idea that everyone already knows what is good for the state; the very opposite is the fact.

Publicity (n.) disciplines ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠power: the anticipation of public criticism makes officials attend to their duties beforehand and act only from the purest motives.

Publicity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠trials is a right because justice, as universal, belongs to all — and citizens must be convinced the right sentence was actually pronounced; judges once thought themselves too high to be seen.

Publicity (n.) teaches ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠that what a man fancies at home with his wife and friends is one thing, and what happens in a great assembly — where one clever stroke annihilates the last — is another.

Publicity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what every doer pretends to shun and by his very deed invites: to act is to display what is one's own in the element of universality, where it becomes everyone's affair.