The right to Right.

But, even at this stage, he has earned the right to reason within himself, to exchange—without fear of persecution–the fruits of his meditation, and to claim the respect of his fellows as a cogent unit in the evolutionary machine; not merely the vassal of lesser men who seek to make him the victim of their despotic posturing.

The tragedy of Man's evolution, and the chief menace to his progress, lies in the ranks of the laggards—those who straggle in the rear of spiritual and intellectual progress, who have not yet emerged from the twilight of barbarism and resent the claim to liberty insisted on by their more enlightened fellows.

It is they who, in their egotistic ignorance, seek to reduce men to the level of their own barbaric limitations. It is they who would turn the advance of culture and civilised liberty to a rout towards serfdom.