Date: May 4th, 2025 1:15 AM
Author: but at what cost
When the majority of men surrender their freedom, barbarism is near but when the
creative minority surrender it, the Dark Age has arrived. Even the word liberalism has
now become a front for a new social form of Christian morality. Science, that was going
to save the world back in H.G. Wells' time, is regimented, strait-jacketed and scared; its
universal language is diminished to one word, security.
In this 1950 view some of my more hopeful utterances may appear almost naive.
However, I was never so naive as to believe that freedom in any full sense of the word is
possible for more than a few. But I have believed and do still hold that these few, by selfsacrifice,
wisdom, courage and continuous effort, can achieve and maintain a free world.
The labor is heroic but it can be done by example and by education. Such was the faith
that built America, a faith that America has surrendered. I call upon America to renew
this faith before she perishes.
We are one nation but we are also one world. The soul of the slums looks out of the eyes
of Wall Street and the fate of a Chinese coolie determines the destiny of America. We
cannot suppress our brother's liberty without suppressing our own and we cannot murder
our brothers without murdering ourselves. We stand together as men for human freedom
and human dignity or we will fall together, as animals, back into the jungle.
In this very late hour it is with solutions that we must be primarily concerned. We seem
to be living in a nation that simply does not know what we are told we have and that we
tell each other we have.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5720231&forum_id=2Elisa#48902345)