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The Promise Of American Life

CHAPTER XIII
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The energy they need is the energy of thought.

The moral unity they need cannot be obtained without intensity and integrity of thought.
III ATTEMPTS AT INDIVIDUAL EMANCIPATION Americans believe, of course, that they enjoy perfect freedom of opinion, and so they do in form.

There is no legal encouragement of any one set of opinions.

There is no legal discouragement of another set of opinions.

They have denied intellectual freedom to themselves by methods very much more insidious than those employed by a despotic government.


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