I think this quote from Mrs. Norris has direct application today as the battle between freedom of speech (a natural right) and the political correctness movement (tyranny of thought control) intensifies. Students on college campuses with opposing views to socialist and progressive professors are shouted down and belittled to the point of submission. Truly conservative, constitutionalist people are ignored, belittled, or have their words distorted so they seem ignorant and far from common sense, in order to promote the politically correct view of the progressives.