Two Against McCarthyism: Me and John P. Peters
TB Schwartz - Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2001 - muse.jhu.edu
TB Schwartz
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 2001•muse.jhu.eduThat community is already in the process of dissolution, where each man begins to eye his
neighbor as a possible enemy. Where nonconformity with the accepted creed is a mark of
disaffection; where denunciation takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes
freedom of dissent.... Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
eliminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the
graveyard.
neighbor as a possible enemy. Where nonconformity with the accepted creed is a mark of
disaffection; where denunciation takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes
freedom of dissent.... Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
eliminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the
graveyard.
That community is already in the process of dissolution, where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy. Where nonconformity with the accepted creed is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent.... Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves eliminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.
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