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...Nazism is not proved by the sadistocratic handling of non-Nazis by Naxis: only the nature of the Nazis is proved...

...in conformity, not in spontaneity...

...B. UT pure intelligence, Platonism, mysticism, ascetism ate net names for ideas or events...

...The keleved teacher I remember is very little Ihe figure he shapes in this book...

...war, not peace...

...Since there Is a dynamic connection between the liberties of men and the conditions of their lives and labor, liberal attention concentrated on social and political reforms of those conditions, and liberal theory and practice often undertook and justified institutional concentrations of responsibility and authority, which the liberal spirit had begun by challenging...

...1 0 maintain this openness, this f>*** dom, is the liberal spirit's fighting fsith, and of all the faiths men set their hopes upon, this is the onl*v one that time does not upset but confirms...

...Naturally, Ihe liberal spirit must be anathema where such pretensions obtain, and where such privilege and authority exist...

...that freedom was...

...in belief, not in reason...

...We are invited 0) there the bounties of "the liberal spirit...

...the means and safety the end...

...George Santayana was "the last Puritan," and that "novel" is, morally, a truer autobiography than the bitter book which he presents as autobiography...

...Now doubt is also ths inner condition of the liberal spirit...

...185-1931 is representative here of all such authoritarian power in all times...

...But this might be laid of the Fiihrer of any authoritarian cult...

...the, doctlines and disciplines of churches, the theories amp techniques of governments, the professions and'-practices" of business enterprises, are all to he rejected or changed, insofar as they facilitate or obstruct this freedom...

...Of course, thia was manna from heaven for the diverse enemies of the liberal spirit, and they fed well on it...

...men of liberal disposition came to believe that it was more "democratic" to be safe than free...

...The important thing becomes the mind's free-"om tc choose which to take from any and all ideas jnd events...

...Hegeli-•ai the State...

...and decided that auch a choice, being an abdication of liberty (which is the constant and growing power of free choice), was ruled out as nullifying precisely that which free choice affirms...

...Their tradition, their historic attitudes and present disposition and practices, came to have a curious vslidity in the thinking of even the most liberal of minds...

...in obedience, not in initiative...

...John's College a Maryland, the prophets of the Liberal Party, the {nitres of the Church Militant, and the philosophic tjtejevators of the "liberal tradition," the liberal spirit, saf liberalism, is proclaimed at one and the same time 0 he the cause of all evil and the bringer of every good...

...It is prosperity, or as the Lutherans put it, union with God •t our level, not at God's level...

...see Bl'T if you know in your heart that your infallibility is only a pretension and not a fact...

...We are ex-atrted about a "liberal" political program...

...Judaists the Torah...

...the autobiography is an aversion from it...

...In those places it is the depth of Satanism to disregard requirements of institutions based on claims of authority from God on thr ground of loyalty to merely human institutions...

...The true consummstion of his Inner and outer ways is to be found rather in Ihe disguise of them which he has called The Lout Puritan...

...We are ¦mrsed against "the liberal illusion...

...Then you undertake to suppress and to destroy the different...

...If you are sure you have the truth, if you are certain of ft beyond every per-adventure of a doubt, then you know you need do nothing yourself to causs your truth to prsvsil...

...Nevertheless there is not a single sect or party which denounces free society and Ihe liberal spirit as evil and corrupt, that does not feed and grow fat upon this evil and corruption...

...Te one writer [Frsd G. Bratton — Tke Legacy of the literal Spirit] this libera) spirit is an attitude toward life muu hhasa history of 2,500years...

...Whatever opposes this equal liberty, the liberal spirit must necessarily oppose...

...Some of the disciples of Louis Veuillot held that only "When the Pope thinks, it is God who mediates in him...

...upon on is we are light to persecute you...

...I do not know of any other instance in which this liberal of libersls, far beyond the most earnest and laborious of his brethren, living or dead, on the High Court of the nation, has attained such a perfection of error regarding the relationships of complete certainty and absolute power to their environment of thoughts and things...

...There was, for example, the late Justiee Oliver Wendell Holmes...

...They insist that if men are te be free and at peace, they must be indoctrinsted in a sniveltal and eternal doctrine, expressed in a lime lam literature, according to an unchanging authori-larian1 discipline...

...Let me set down here those ignored sentences: "Persecution for the expression of opinion seems to me perfectly logical...

...that your truth cannot stand on its own merits, nor by its own powers prevails over its competitors and alternatives...

...For ia a sense, the novel was an utterance of the liberal spirit...

...The ttvng all these schools detest is the ideal union with God at God's level, ptaper to ascetism, mysticism, Platonism, and pure intelligence which insists on seeing things under the form of truth and of eternity...

...The more devoted you srs to "ths result," ths more certain you sre about your power snd premises, ths more cslmly snd serenely you rest in this devotion snd security, the more completely you srs on "God's level," seeing things under "the form of truth snd of eternity...

...This has been the way of the true lielievers, the true mystics in all times and all places...

...But he is not right...

...Marxists the Dialectic of Matter...

...Thus, Communism is neither disproved by constant aggression against Communists outside of Russia, nor persecution of non-Communists inside of Russia...

...Persecution, wherever it occurs, establishes only the power and cunning of the persecutor, not tbe truth and worth of his belief...

...Alone upon it and only through it are "the form of truth and of eternity" to be attained...

...Much of the disrepute into which the liberal spirit haa fallen, many of the charges of inconsistency, weakness, defeatism, cowardice which have been levelled at its spokesmen, are due to their acquiescence in this grotesque sophistry...

...But Mill's argument was incidental to other issues and its intent was not heeded...

...None ia entitled to greater privilege or endowed with greater authority than any other...

...Leo Xlll's demand [Great Encyclical letters of I,to XIII, pp...

...This freedom defines for the libersl spirit both its goal snd its ways of reaching its goal...

...Nazis iae Nazi Race, as against the human race...

...Holme* is right, then freedom has been at all times and in all places founded on weakness, the liberal spirit has been the spirit of impotence, and logic, loyalty and piety are qualities of the in-fallibilist, the dogmatist and the inquisitor alone...

...For that spirit, prosperity can signify only as it facilitates or obstructs this freedom...

...The interest of liberals concentrated upon ways and means of maintaining and enlarging the state of freedom...

...Thus Santayana Mmself takes Matter mystically, ascetically, Plstoni-*ally, in terms of pure intelligence...

...When Protestantism made the right of Private judgment" its fighting faith, it was this freedom and not property that it took asceticrlly...

...It Was s demand for "complete submission and obedience of will to the Church and to the Roman Pontiff as to God himself...

...Living, you let live and help live...

...Then you persecute the different...

...they are names for human attitudes toward ideas snd events...

...Its labor is always to keep i>e ways of life and thought open and free...

...For the liberal- spirit, "God's level" is the level of this freedom...

...A paragraph from his famoua dissent in the Schenck Case is quoted practically every time freedom of speech is discussed...

...It acknowledges every doctrine snd discipline, snd it denies the claim to special privilege of any...

...The others the different, the opposition— sre powerless to mske sny difference to your fsith snd ways...

...This bitter and beautiful keek is the judgment which a philosopher passes from the remotenesses of his eighty-first yesr upon the sowers ef place and persons that he believes made him what he it today...

...license, not liberty...

...But it does not cover up its senae of the equal reality of alternatives by n fear-born aggression on behslf of one, nor does it claim in the name of that one the right to persecute, enslave and destroy the others...

...You go about your business so confident, so serene, so secure in your own truth thst you srs tolerant and heedless of the others' errors...

...Then ,"»« important thing ceases to be the idea or event so '•''en...

...In many areas of endeavor, since the turn of the century and especially between the two world wars, this concern over security became pathological...

...Each, an individuality different from the ..there, is the equal of the others in status and liberty...

...This has been the way, throughout history, of priests end kings claiming specific authority from God...

...Its character is far less a matter of the objective national economy than of the subjective personal psychology...

...To the liberal spirit the existence of such privilege and authority or the pretension to them are a fall from "God's level" and a menace to freedom...

...In the perspective of the sentences which precede this one, its meaning ia not quite that which the quoters intend...

...In order to strengthen it and make it prevail, you add to whatever inward merit your doubtful faith may have, all the force and fraud you can muster...

...causes of decadence, not progress...

...In those places —be they Nazidom, Spain, Portugal, the Argentine, Russia, Vatican City, Turkey, Quebec or Japan variation, free inquiry, reason, spontaneity and initiative are denounced as license...

...But the quotation invariably begins in the middle of the paragraph, with the phrase "But when men have realised that time hss upset many fighting faiths...

...JoHN STl'ART MILL had exposed that fallacy in his Essay on Liberty, when he inquired whether a human being might freely choose to become a slave...

...He intended to put them between the horns of a dilemma: to be true to the principle of freedom and thus make the way sure for the defeat of the principle by its enemies...

...Catholics the Pope and tfce Roman Catholic Church...

...These develop only in freedom and through freedom...

...an attitude"which caphaauee the primary importance of the person, the freedom of the individual, free press,»free speech, consti-tatienal government, tolerance, the scientific spirit of in-eoiry, the rational outlook, social reform, poplar educa-tiea, a relativistic philosophy, and ethico-social religion...

...The current name for this Interest is "security...

...If you have no doubt of your premises or your power and went s certain result with all your heart, you naturally express your wishes in law and sweep away all opposition...

...Orthodox Chris-tisasso take the Trinity...

...Freedom as a goal came to be taken for granted...

...They are *M»e of taking ideas and events, and anything in experience may be taken in those ways...

...Louis Veuillot had admonished the liberals of his day: I'poii your principles yon are bound to tolerate us...

...If Mr...

...Hence, when it comes to identifying "God's level" or "the form of tn,t« and eternity," this regularly turns out to be Particular establishment, doctrine and discipline of some particular society of men who demand that ¦ *lso all other men should treat their idol ascetically, "yitically, Platonicalv and in terms of pure intelligence...

...They constitute whst Ixniis Veruillot railed "the liberal illusion" and are exorcised by Monsignor Barry O'Toole as "satanic and anti social error...

...Upon it no particular idea or event, no person, church or iace or state or class can be more divinely chosen or divinely gifted than any other...

...His recollections convey little love, nock frustration, defeat and flight...

...What aritli the apostles of the pedagogy of St...

...Other oracles, such aa the president of the University ef Chicago and his companions in the faith, see these etmpenents of the liberal spirit as materialism, not sterslity...

...When Liberalism enlarged the field of Private judgment, free inquiry and experiment to einf** all, other thoughts and things as well a* those of religion, it was this freedom which it made its fighting faith...

...A civilization failing to lender juch submission could be only worthless and meaningless...

...due to their failure to recognize that there is nothing in the principle of freedom that requires it* own extinction...

...in repetition, not in variation...

...fHU is attitude exemplified by personages as diverse as Origan and Voltaire, Erasmus and Dewey, Paine and Darwin...

...It underlies progress and modem civilization, ft is the spirit wherein Jefferson's Jesus snd Shelley's Prometheus are one, the spirit which sets men free aad stakes them friends...

...or to oppose snd suppress the enemies of ' freedom and thus themselves defeat their own principle for liberals...

...Ths sine sign of your certainty is thst opposition to it cannot and does not trouble you...

...To allow opposition by speech seems to indicate that you think the speech impotent, as whan a msn says he has squared the circle, or that you do not care wholeheartedly for the result, or that you doubt either your power or your premises...

...Reflecting upon his father's anti-clericalism, the recluse of the Convent of the English Blue Nuns declares "Liberalism, Protestantism, Judaism, positivism all have the same ultimate aim and standard...

...if, in fact, you do not care wholeheartedly for the result and doubt both your powers and your premises, then you do not trust your truth and you fear its opponents and alternatives...

...mys-'*•%, etc...

...Now the spirit of man becomes liberal when it '•cognizes this psychological and historic fact...

...Perhaps they are finding aid and comfort for this dogma of theirs in George Santayana * latest publication, Persons and Places...

...What it believes in beyond any doubt is the equal right of all to equal opportunity to make good their claims on their own power, by their i>m aid merit...

...Far from being • perfectly logical, persecution for the expression of opinion is, in the infallible, utterly illogical...

...It is an uncompromising devotion to the idea of equal liberty as both the means and the end of life that characterises the liberal spirit...

...In those places, liberty can consist only in assent, not in free inquiry...

...They do not con-seanaate the author's mature vision and his oplimsl Work, rather do they distort snd deny those...