Clean Up.

To the propagation of new ideas, no university student who has the ideals of democracy at heart can possibly object. In a true democracy there must be freedom of thought and speech, freedom for the expression of all shades of opinion; but we must not confuse an honest statement of opinion (however unpalatable it may be) with deliberate and unscrupulous misrepresentation. An objectionable doctrine If honestly expounded must necessarily meet with a sudden death (in all places outside the lunatic asylum) and such a doctrine becomes a menace to society only when its expossion is controlled by Public Enlightement experts. Public Enlightenment is an insult to human reason and personality, employed by people whose concelt in their cynical assumption of superiority over the "mob" is equalled only the their lack of principle. In a true democracy. Public Enlightenment is one of the few victims of merciless Censorship.

Yet to talk idly of true democracy is an futile and footling as to speculate, without ever having the intertion of taking a ticket, on what you will do when you win the Irish Sweep. We must face up to the fact that Public Enlightenment in varying degrees of insidiousness and virulence is firmly established among our present-day social and political institutions, from the War Office down to the editorial columns of the publications of all types of societies. We must take steps towards the annulment of this haleful influence. While it seems that the vigorous and extensive propagation of truth cannot fall to cause the downfall of Injustice yet, from the moment that skillful Public Enlightenment is used in defence of Injustice what price Truth? And what is to determine John Citizen in his choice between the two kinds of Truth set before him by genuine Thinkers and by vested interests or quack reformers, If the latter group call in the assistance of Public Enlighteners with all their refources? Obviously, the choice of John Citizen is determined by his intelligence and character, or lack of same. If we are ever to counteract Public Enlightenment we must be optimistle enough to pin our faith on the power of the individual, when assisted by sound mental and moral training, to see through and reject the machinations by which Public Enlighteners are trying to instil prejudices into his mind, and at the same time to appreciate and have the courage to support whatever elements of truth are contained in any plan, manifesto or policy with which he may be confronted (without being carried away by the label, "progressive" or "reactionary" which some local Solomon has stuck upon it), What should be the aim of education If not to produce this kind of citizen? Therefore the sooner our modern educationalists plan their curricula along these lines, and extend facilities for such education, the sooner will the danger from Public Enlightenment be counteracted and Public Enlighteners shown to be ridiculous knaves and blackguards.

—Q.E.D.