Chapter 32 Epilogue But this world is not happy
The publisher wrote to me and said: "A book was published in 1925. Now it is almost a classic. We want to make a permanent version of the popular version and set a new 'popular price'." If they Am I willing to write the last chapter, in order to make the necessary arrangements for the original?Perhaps I can try to explain why the ideal of tolerance has been so disastrously shattered in the last ten years, and why our present age is not free from hatred, cruelty and bigotry!There must be a reason for all this, and if there is, and I know it, can I tell?
I replied that dissecting the body of the beautiful Goddess of Mercy was not a pleasure, but a duty, and I felt it my duty.
The next question is, on what page should I say goodbye to the book I wrote fifteen years ago and start writing the afterword?
The publisher advised me to cut out the last chapter because of the high hopes and cheers at the end.They are undoubtedly right about this.Indeed, there is nothing to be happy about, and the funeral march in the middle is more suitable to accompany my concluding remarks than the hopeful cantata of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
But after thinking about it, I think this is not a good way to solve the problem.
I share the pessimism of the publishers.But this book will live on for many years, and I think the only just way is to let the next generation know how 1925 inspired us to hope for a happier and nobler future, and 1940 How these glorious dreams were completely shattered, why this happened, what mistakes we made that led to this terrible disaster.
After several correspondences, I persuaded the publisher that I was still reasonable, and here is what I wrote to him as a supplement to the latest and last edition of .
The past seven years can be said to be an out-and-out "ugly witch's cauldron", in which all the evils and evils of human beings are gathered together and become a hodgepodge, which will poison all of us (unless we invent a fast and a powerful antidote). I pored over the various ingredients poured into this disgusting vessel, and took pains to observe those who were largely responsible for this hideous smorgasbord.That hodgepodge stinks and spreads across our planet, and I, like anyone else living in the few remaining democracies, am baffled to see how lowly kitchen servants are embraced by so many puzzled.These lowly servants not only reveled in the disgusting hodgepodge, but spent all their time forcing it down the throats of innocent bystanders.These onlookers, who evidently preferred the soup of ancestral goodwill and tolerance, would be instantly killed if they did not show pleasure in the hodgepodge, and eat the unappetizing pile.I tried my best to understand how this kind of thing happened, to satisfy my curiosity.Now I want to tell you the result of my patient observation.
In order to understand the cause of this question, I suggest that you follow the example of that shrewd and respectable statesman, Mr. Alfred E. Smith, of Albany, New York, who now lives in the Empire State Building.Let's first look at the records and see what we can find. I'm asking a question here that might seem a bit off topic, but (as you'll see in a moment) is closely related to the problem we're trying to solve.Have you ever owned a dog, cat or other poultry animal?Have you studied the attitudes of these humble animals toward their families and their owners' gardens and backyards?You must have noticed that these dumb animals, by nature, instinct, training, or some combination of all three, have an absurd value for what they consider to be their "rights and privileges."The same police dog can let the owner's child pull its tail around the house, and it can also let the child pull a bunch of hair from its body, but when another kind and amiable child just stepped on the lawn belonging to "it" , it immediately went to howl.The smallest German hunting dog must have noticed that the neighbor's Nordic shaggy dog can tear it to pieces, but as long as the hunting dog dares to cross the line that it thinks separates its own territory from the neighbor's territory, it will rush to the fierce dog. big beast.Even cats who care only about their own comfort can throw a tantrum when another cat dares to trespass on their fireside. Hunters of big game are familiar with the habits of the forest dwellers.They tell me that beasts have herd instincts, and that wild beasts outside cannot join their tribe, however beneficial the added strength of the joiner may be to their rapidly weakening strength.Those who pretend to understand the psychology of dumb fish have told me that even among these cold-blooded animals there is a fixed code of conduct when a strange fish appears, and that the fish that inhabit fixed places between the rocks of the river , never let a foreign fish join its ranks. I'm not very well versed in zoology, but I learned a little about humans, and when I researched records of human behavior during so-called historical periods (during which short periods of time humans recorded their thoughts and actions), I discovered that what?I found that from the beginning to the present, human beings have always been "social animals". Only when a person feels that he belongs to some exclusive group formed by fellow travelers, the members of this group are all in harmony with their inherited beliefs, prejudices, preferences, and fears. Only when there are , hope and ideal is the person truly happy. Of course, economic imperatives may occasionally compel certain groups of people, including rival tribes, to behave in a certain political way.However, this arrangement cannot last forever.What really brings many people together despite hardships and dangers is that they have many clear-cut common beliefs, common prejudices, common preferences, common fears, common hopes and ideals. Look at the accounts from Jobs and Rabbi to Hitler and Mussolini.It has been the same in all ages and places—every group, every tribe, every sect, almost every family, has insisted on keeping its neighbors at a distance because they are vastly superior to each other, without common understanding or common action any basis.Let me give you a well-known example. By what name do nearly all people everywhere call themselves in the first place?There are an astonishing number of examples of people calling themselves "God's people" or "God's chosen people," or, more absurdly, "God's people."The Egyptians were lowly small farmers in the eyes of others, but they regarded themselves as "men of God".Jews consider themselves "God's chosen people". "Sumi" - the official name as it is known now is Finnish, which means (I was told) "Man of God".Many tribes in the Pacific—the Tahitians we are most familiar with—also call themselves "God's people."Polynesia is thousands of miles away from Western Asia, North Africa, and Northern Europe, and the races that inhabit these places have nothing in common with each other.But there is one thing, they all obviously think that they are the real valuable people, they look down on other members of human beings, they think they are different, undignified, should be despised, if possible, they should stay away.
Even the poor ones proudly declared, "We are God's men."
Greece appears at first glance to be an exception to this startling pattern.But they proudly insisted that they were the direct descendants of Helen, the sons of the gods, and the only survivors of the great flood, which showed that they respected people of their own race.They contemptuously refer to non-Greeks as barbarians (the Greek word barbarous means strange, foreign, brutish, slavish, and ignorant), which reveals how much they despise all non-Greeks, and call them rudely Dissidents, even those well-known scientists and philosophers who are indeed superior in all aspects and have a broad mind consider them inferior.This suggests that, in this respect at least, they were on par with the ignorant Australian aborigines, who never learned numbers beyond three, but who took great pride in telling the earliest European visitors that if asked who they were , would be very stupid, since they are clearly unique and one-of-a-kind "Men of God".
The Romans we note are not bound by this obnoxious form of insolence.This is not because they think of themselves less than others.Don't think so!They, like the modern English, take their own supremacy for granted, and they never see the need for any definite explanation of it.They were Romans, and that was enough.It would be unseemly to make a fuss over such an obvious thing—everyone can see it.The Romans didn't care about that, at least not in this respect.
I will not say much more about the fact that the concept of pure race drives most tribes and nations to consider themselves unique and worthy of being called true peoples.But this is only a detail, because along with this strange racial sense of exclusion and superiority, there are certain beliefs about such different but crucial issues as religion, morality, and customs.As a result, every group, great or small, always dwells in a fortified castle, with a solid barrier of prejudice and obstinacy against outside and outside influences. The United States has survived independently for a century and a half.It is true that the Puritans had nothing to brag about for their intolerance, but we avoided the most dangerous extremes.But now that the outlying areas have been developed and the country is rapidly becoming finalized, we don't seem to have learned enough from the false examples of the older races of the planet.Right here on our land, various racial groups are still clinging to each other and enforcing their own taboos, as if they had never heard of the Declaration of Human Rights.Religious groups seem to have never talked about the freedom of the press stipulated in the constitution. They not only force their members to read and think, but also make their own laws regardless of the laws made by representatives elected by the whole people.Up close and personal we can see (if we will) the development of a narrow-minded spirituality and racial exclusion that until the outbreak of war in 1914 was considered an unfortunate remnant of the Dark Ages. Clearly, our optimistic view of the situation is a bit premature.In the course of nearly six years, the growth of Nazism, Fascism, and all kinds of prejudiced and one-sided nationalist, racist ideologies has begun to convince even the most hopeful that we have slipped back into almost Medieval without compromise.
Not a pleasant discovery, but as a philosophical French general said some time ago (almost prophetically): "It's no use getting angry at unpleasant things, because the facts don't care and therefore don't change".So let's face up to these most unwelcome developments, draw their logical conclusions, and find out what to do about them!
Tolerance, in the broadest sense, has ever been a luxury, and could only be purchased by men of the most advanced intellect--men who have escaped, intellectually, the narrow prejudices of their less enlightened companions, Seeing the whole of humanity has a vast and colorful outlook.They ask us, as my old friend Quintus Aurelius Symachus did at the beginning of this book, that since we all look at the same stars, since we are all of the same planet Companion, since we all live in the same sky, and since the riddle of existence is so profound that only one path can lead to its solution, why are we always enemies?But if we dared to do so, and invoked the noble words of an ancient pagan, the intolerant leaders of gangs who insist there is only one way to salvation (that is, theirs) would immediately howl at us , and hurled stones and stakes, and those who did not follow their narrow paths were doomed to eternal hell, and so they were severely suppressed, lest their doubts should influence others to go too. Try paths not marked on the "only authoritative map." Quintas Aurelius Symachus lived in the fourth century AD.Since then, good minds have occasionally raised their voices in defense of this spiritual and racial neutrality.Occasionally (but only for a short time) they have even managed to create their own groups where people can think as they please and are allowed to seek salvation in their own way.
The wizard's cauldron of hate
But this tolerant attitude is always enforced by the leadership at the top.It never comes from below, they are not willing to accept interference from above, so relying on traditional power, they always try to force others to accept their views, and if there is no other way to enlighten others, they use force to force them to "join" , so in order to prevent bloodshed, it is often necessary for the police to intervene.
All Americans should be eternally grateful that their Union was founded by a group of true philosophers, men worthy of the word philosophers, who had a wide range of practical experience and were completely free from thirteen enclave districts Fanatical sectarianism typical of early history.This generation was finally rewarded, but when they were gone, millions of hungry Europeans flooded into the beautiful lands where they had hoped to establish a kingdom of reason, and these Europeans brought not only strong arms ( This is what they need), and also bring in old preconceived prejudices.They only believe in the correctness of their own opinions, and they can only follow themselves on various issues, and must not listen to other opinions.
At that time, we were too optimistic, and we were busy exploring the resources of the mainland, so that we thought that everything could be solved with this big melting pot.But to melt any substance, it is best to go through a slow and complicated process, which also requires constant supervision and supervision, because the human soul is unwilling to be liquefied, and it is more stubborn than any substance we know.The upshot is that all kinds of modern intolerance, armed with machine guns and concentration camps, are far superior to those of the Middle Ages, who could only "convince" heretics with dungeons and slow-burning stakes.
This raises a question for us, what can we do?As I said a few pages ago, I don't believe in a policy of turning a blind eye to unpleasant things.So I draw a pessimistic conclusion: At least for the time being, there is nothing constructive we can do about the very unfortunate state of affairs.We must accept this situation, while at the same time carefully planning for the future slowly and carefully, that is certain, and we can no longer allow ourselves to be caught off guard, because civilization can no longer withstand what it has suffered in the past six years. All kinds of endless blows.
The war from 1914 to 1918 was like a hurricane.Not only did it destroy a great deal of human organization, but it left so many dead or impoverished that it was impossible to undo these losses in a short period of time.Those who survived the catastrophe unscathed were only interested in repairing their own houses, not caring about the ruins of others.In the end, it was completely impossible to carry out any kind of normal and healthy life in the abandoned alleys that were the hardest hit around.Then, in the ruins of some dreary cellars, from whom no one knew came strange, unhealthy people, who gathered together some outcasts, and began to preach the doctrines of their own invention, and these people were in the desolate bushes. A healthy and sane philosophy of life does not develop there. Now that the reconstruction is many years behind, we can put it in perspective.After the world wars, the world needed, more than anything, lots of fresh air, sunshine, and good food, and all it got was hunger and disappointment.So many pernicious new doctrines arose, reminding us of those unbelievable creeds developed in the stinking crooked streets of the decaying coastal cities of Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries. But in the end, the new adherents of the prophets of salvation, starving enough, escaped and poured into our relatively peaceful villages, for which we were as unprepared as the Alexandrians were seventeen centuries ago. At that time, mobs in the nearby desert turned their eyes on strange eyes, broke into the school, and executed the philosophers, because the doctrine of tolerance they taught meant a curse on those who thought they had mastered the only truth.
Yes, we are as surprised and desperate now as we were in the past.It is too late for us to try to sweep away the plague that has swept across the planet - the plague of paranoia and mob spirit.But at least we should have the courage to acknowledge the reality of their existence, to see them as the present-day reappearance of some very ancient human traits that have been dormant for ages, waiting for an opportunity to rise again.When the time comes, they will not only return triumphantly, but, having been repressed for so long, will be more furious, furious, and murderous than at any time in history.
town turned into jungle
Such is the picture now unfolding before our horrified gazes.We ourselves (bless the wide Atlantic!) are relatively safe from the aftermath of this recent outburst of racial and religious fanaticism.But if we are not constantly prepared, the virus will hit our shores and destroy us.
Just now I asked myself, "What can we do?" As far as I can tell, there's not much to do but keep a cool head and be prepared.Grinding your lips won't get you anywhere.The mental and emotional impulse to fantasize about one's own superiority can only hasten the process of breakdown.For the enemies of democracy will misinterpret our attitude of compassion and long-term tolerance for mere weakness, and will act accordingly.When we are put in concentration camps in the future, we will think that the democracies in central Europe were destroyed in the same way as we are, and that their tolerance for people with completely opposite theories is like boasting about white ants." We all have indivisible power," and these termites are destroying the very foundations beneath our feet.
No - as far as I understand the current situation, it is too late for a straightforward counter-offensive.It was we who encouraged the enemy to come in.We give them every kind of security until they are strong enough to oppose their guardians, and compel them to live an inferior life—a life without liberty.But in the few corners of our planet where freedom remains, those who are upright and just have a duty--an urgent and absolute duty--to recharge their batteries and preserve themselves for the coming The day the reconstruction work began. No one should think that this is defeatist, or the idea of someone who is afraid to take on the challenge.Not at all!Facts are facts, and through unforgivable carelessness and lack of courage in taking responsibility, we have temporarily lost so much territory that we should retreat more or less for the present and then prepare for another initiation. This gives us the task of actually exercising ourselves in the matter of tolerance.We should end the muddled indifference, starting with the idea that this kind of thing doesn't happen here.Not only can they happen, but they have happened, and they are not uncommon.When we bravely accept the discipline of an army -- an army called to a decisive battle -- we must make solid preparations for that happy hour when once again we can bring about a final and permanent Move forward rationally, make it powerful, give freedom. Here, my friends, is a work left to a few determined volunteers.I admit this will be the most difficult struggle we will ever face, but those who took it will live on forever.The survivors of this glorious struggle will be hailed as the true philanthropists of mankind--those who have freed mankind from the shackles of generations of prejudice and self-righteous superiority, which once added to the Doubt and fear turn the humblest and most docile of men into the cruelest brutes that ever existed, and the sworn enemies of the ideal of tolerance.
The past seven years can be said to be an out-and-out "ugly witch's cauldron", in which all the evils and evils of human beings are gathered together and become a hodgepodge, which will poison all of us (unless we invent a fast and a powerful antidote). I pored over the various ingredients poured into this disgusting vessel, and took pains to observe those who were largely responsible for this hideous smorgasbord.That hodgepodge stinks and spreads across our planet, and I, like anyone else living in the few remaining democracies, am baffled to see how lowly kitchen servants are embraced by so many puzzled.These lowly servants not only reveled in the disgusting hodgepodge, but spent all their time forcing it down the throats of innocent bystanders.These onlookers, who evidently preferred the soup of ancestral goodwill and tolerance, would be instantly killed if they did not show pleasure in the hodgepodge, and eat the unappetizing pile.I tried my best to understand how this kind of thing happened, to satisfy my curiosity.Now I want to tell you the result of my patient observation.
In order to understand the cause of this question, I suggest that you follow the example of that shrewd and respectable statesman, Mr. Alfred E. Smith, of Albany, New York, who now lives in the Empire State Building.Let's first look at the records and see what we can find. I'm asking a question here that might seem a bit off topic, but (as you'll see in a moment) is closely related to the problem we're trying to solve.Have you ever owned a dog, cat or other poultry animal?Have you studied the attitudes of these humble animals toward their families and their owners' gardens and backyards?You must have noticed that these dumb animals, by nature, instinct, training, or some combination of all three, have an absurd value for what they consider to be their "rights and privileges."The same police dog can let the owner's child pull its tail around the house, and it can also let the child pull a bunch of hair from its body, but when another kind and amiable child just stepped on the lawn belonging to "it" , it immediately went to howl.The smallest German hunting dog must have noticed that the neighbor's Nordic shaggy dog can tear it to pieces, but as long as the hunting dog dares to cross the line that it thinks separates its own territory from the neighbor's territory, it will rush to the fierce dog. big beast.Even cats who care only about their own comfort can throw a tantrum when another cat dares to trespass on their fireside. Hunters of big game are familiar with the habits of the forest dwellers.They tell me that beasts have herd instincts, and that wild beasts outside cannot join their tribe, however beneficial the added strength of the joiner may be to their rapidly weakening strength.Those who pretend to understand the psychology of dumb fish have told me that even among these cold-blooded animals there is a fixed code of conduct when a strange fish appears, and that the fish that inhabit fixed places between the rocks of the river , never let a foreign fish join its ranks. I'm not very well versed in zoology, but I learned a little about humans, and when I researched records of human behavior during so-called historical periods (during which short periods of time humans recorded their thoughts and actions), I discovered that what?I found that from the beginning to the present, human beings have always been "social animals". Only when a person feels that he belongs to some exclusive group formed by fellow travelers, the members of this group are all in harmony with their inherited beliefs, prejudices, preferences, and fears. Only when there are , hope and ideal is the person truly happy. Of course, economic imperatives may occasionally compel certain groups of people, including rival tribes, to behave in a certain political way.However, this arrangement cannot last forever.What really brings many people together despite hardships and dangers is that they have many clear-cut common beliefs, common prejudices, common preferences, common fears, common hopes and ideals. Look at the accounts from Jobs and Rabbi to Hitler and Mussolini.It has been the same in all ages and places—every group, every tribe, every sect, almost every family, has insisted on keeping its neighbors at a distance because they are vastly superior to each other, without common understanding or common action any basis.Let me give you a well-known example. By what name do nearly all people everywhere call themselves in the first place?There are an astonishing number of examples of people calling themselves "God's people" or "God's chosen people," or, more absurdly, "God's people."The Egyptians were lowly small farmers in the eyes of others, but they regarded themselves as "men of God".Jews consider themselves "God's chosen people". "Sumi" - the official name as it is known now is Finnish, which means (I was told) "Man of God".Many tribes in the Pacific—the Tahitians we are most familiar with—also call themselves "God's people."Polynesia is thousands of miles away from Western Asia, North Africa, and Northern Europe, and the races that inhabit these places have nothing in common with each other.But there is one thing, they all obviously think that they are the real valuable people, they look down on other members of human beings, they think they are different, undignified, should be despised, if possible, they should stay away.
Even the poor ones proudly declared, "We are God's men."
I will not say much more about the fact that the concept of pure race drives most tribes and nations to consider themselves unique and worthy of being called true peoples.But this is only a detail, because along with this strange racial sense of exclusion and superiority, there are certain beliefs about such different but crucial issues as religion, morality, and customs.As a result, every group, great or small, always dwells in a fortified castle, with a solid barrier of prejudice and obstinacy against outside and outside influences. The United States has survived independently for a century and a half.It is true that the Puritans had nothing to brag about for their intolerance, but we avoided the most dangerous extremes.But now that the outlying areas have been developed and the country is rapidly becoming finalized, we don't seem to have learned enough from the false examples of the older races of the planet.Right here on our land, various racial groups are still clinging to each other and enforcing their own taboos, as if they had never heard of the Declaration of Human Rights.Religious groups seem to have never talked about the freedom of the press stipulated in the constitution. They not only force their members to read and think, but also make their own laws regardless of the laws made by representatives elected by the whole people.Up close and personal we can see (if we will) the development of a narrow-minded spirituality and racial exclusion that until the outbreak of war in 1914 was considered an unfortunate remnant of the Dark Ages. Clearly, our optimistic view of the situation is a bit premature.In the course of nearly six years, the growth of Nazism, Fascism, and all kinds of prejudiced and one-sided nationalist, racist ideologies has begun to convince even the most hopeful that we have slipped back into almost Medieval without compromise.
Not a pleasant discovery, but as a philosophical French general said some time ago (almost prophetically): "It's no use getting angry at unpleasant things, because the facts don't care and therefore don't change".So let's face up to these most unwelcome developments, draw their logical conclusions, and find out what to do about them!
Tolerance, in the broadest sense, has ever been a luxury, and could only be purchased by men of the most advanced intellect--men who have escaped, intellectually, the narrow prejudices of their less enlightened companions, Seeing the whole of humanity has a vast and colorful outlook.They ask us, as my old friend Quintus Aurelius Symachus did at the beginning of this book, that since we all look at the same stars, since we are all of the same planet Companion, since we all live in the same sky, and since the riddle of existence is so profound that only one path can lead to its solution, why are we always enemies?But if we dared to do so, and invoked the noble words of an ancient pagan, the intolerant leaders of gangs who insist there is only one way to salvation (that is, theirs) would immediately howl at us , and hurled stones and stakes, and those who did not follow their narrow paths were doomed to eternal hell, and so they were severely suppressed, lest their doubts should influence others to go too. Try paths not marked on the "only authoritative map." Quintas Aurelius Symachus lived in the fourth century AD.Since then, good minds have occasionally raised their voices in defense of this spiritual and racial neutrality.Occasionally (but only for a short time) they have even managed to create their own groups where people can think as they please and are allowed to seek salvation in their own way.
The wizard's cauldron of hate
This raises a question for us, what can we do?As I said a few pages ago, I don't believe in a policy of turning a blind eye to unpleasant things.So I draw a pessimistic conclusion: At least for the time being, there is nothing constructive we can do about the very unfortunate state of affairs.We must accept this situation, while at the same time carefully planning for the future slowly and carefully, that is certain, and we can no longer allow ourselves to be caught off guard, because civilization can no longer withstand what it has suffered in the past six years. All kinds of endless blows.
The war from 1914 to 1918 was like a hurricane.Not only did it destroy a great deal of human organization, but it left so many dead or impoverished that it was impossible to undo these losses in a short period of time.Those who survived the catastrophe unscathed were only interested in repairing their own houses, not caring about the ruins of others.In the end, it was completely impossible to carry out any kind of normal and healthy life in the abandoned alleys that were the hardest hit around.Then, in the ruins of some dreary cellars, from whom no one knew came strange, unhealthy people, who gathered together some outcasts, and began to preach the doctrines of their own invention, and these people were in the desolate bushes. A healthy and sane philosophy of life does not develop there. Now that the reconstruction is many years behind, we can put it in perspective.After the world wars, the world needed, more than anything, lots of fresh air, sunshine, and good food, and all it got was hunger and disappointment.So many pernicious new doctrines arose, reminding us of those unbelievable creeds developed in the stinking crooked streets of the decaying coastal cities of Asia Minor in the third and fourth centuries. But in the end, the new adherents of the prophets of salvation, starving enough, escaped and poured into our relatively peaceful villages, for which we were as unprepared as the Alexandrians were seventeen centuries ago. At that time, mobs in the nearby desert turned their eyes on strange eyes, broke into the school, and executed the philosophers, because the doctrine of tolerance they taught meant a curse on those who thought they had mastered the only truth.
Yes, we are as surprised and desperate now as we were in the past.It is too late for us to try to sweep away the plague that has swept across the planet - the plague of paranoia and mob spirit.But at least we should have the courage to acknowledge the reality of their existence, to see them as the present-day reappearance of some very ancient human traits that have been dormant for ages, waiting for an opportunity to rise again.When the time comes, they will not only return triumphantly, but, having been repressed for so long, will be more furious, furious, and murderous than at any time in history.
town turned into jungle
No - as far as I understand the current situation, it is too late for a straightforward counter-offensive.It was we who encouraged the enemy to come in.We give them every kind of security until they are strong enough to oppose their guardians, and compel them to live an inferior life—a life without liberty.But in the few corners of our planet where freedom remains, those who are upright and just have a duty--an urgent and absolute duty--to recharge their batteries and preserve themselves for the coming The day the reconstruction work began. No one should think that this is defeatist, or the idea of someone who is afraid to take on the challenge.Not at all!Facts are facts, and through unforgivable carelessness and lack of courage in taking responsibility, we have temporarily lost so much territory that we should retreat more or less for the present and then prepare for another initiation. This gives us the task of actually exercising ourselves in the matter of tolerance.We should end the muddled indifference, starting with the idea that this kind of thing doesn't happen here.Not only can they happen, but they have happened, and they are not uncommon.When we bravely accept the discipline of an army -- an army called to a decisive battle -- we must make solid preparations for that happy hour when once again we can bring about a final and permanent Move forward rationally, make it powerful, give freedom. Here, my friends, is a work left to a few determined volunteers.I admit this will be the most difficult struggle we will ever face, but those who took it will live on forever.The survivors of this glorious struggle will be hailed as the true philanthropists of mankind--those who have freed mankind from the shackles of generations of prejudice and self-righteous superiority, which once added to the Doubt and fear turn the humblest and most docile of men into the cruelest brutes that ever existed, and the sworn enemies of the ideal of tolerance.