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Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye; Much sense the starkest madness. 'Tis the majority In this, as all, prevails. Assent, and you are sane; Demur, you're straightway dangerous. And handled with a chain. Emily Dickinson The Dangers of Being Different A cup of hemlock silenced Socrates in 399 BC, an ax ended Thomas More's opposition to Henry VIII in 1535, fire consumed Savonarola in 1498 and Joan of Arc in 1431. Galileo recanted his scientific findings in 1663 under the threat of torture, Gandhi was shot in 1948, Lincoln was assassinated in 1865 and Thomas a Becket in 1170. In 1963 a modern nation and world were horrified by the murder of John F. Kennedy. If any generalization can be made about these victims of wrath and ignorance, it is that they were punished for their nonconformity, their re- fusal to adhere to established patterns, their un- deviating individualism. Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. If the idea is really revolutionary, its proponent is im- mediately attacked by those who feel that their own beliefs have been challenged. Charles Dar- win's theories of evolution were denounced by some as a negation of the Bible. Billy Mitchell was vilified until the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor proved his predictions about air power correct. Negro leaders of the Twentieth Century are threatened, bombed, shot, or lynched for daring to suggest complete equality of op- portunity. In no period of time in any country has it ever been easy or safe to be different. Although his- torians have chosen to record these examples, the world's history has also been made by thousands of nameless people who have suffered death, unemployment, confiscation of property, and so- cial and economic ostracism for the sake of their ideals. Thomas Carlisle 3
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But if uncompromising individualism is dangerous, it is also the most important factor in the civilization of the world. Originating in the West with Greek and Roman adoration of the perfect man—intelligent, athletic, and handsome—this concept was advanced even more by the Judaic-Christian idea of one God and His relationship with each individual. Perhaps the contrast between this theology and that which maintains that the soul's greatest achievement is to lose its identity in a smoke-like intermingling with all souls, is one of the reasons so much of the Oriental culture is being Westernized. With the exception of a few -great intellectuals like Thomas Aquinas, Abelard, and Roger Bacon, man had to wait until the close of the Middle Ages for the next milestone in his liberation. The Renaissance was more than a revival of classic arts and letters; it was a spirit of change that quickened the development of nations and languages, the exploration of new continents, the invention of gun powder, the compass, paper and the printing press, the acceptance of the Copernican system of astronomy, and the disintegration of feudalism. People began to learn how to make and value their own decisions. The British Isles were ripe for this sort of change. Its nobles had never equalled the success of the French and Germans in firmly entrenching the feudal system. Acting through Parliament, the Judiciary, and influential merchants, the citizenry had wrung concessions such as the Magna Charta, the Petition of Rights, and the Bill of Rights from their monarchs. And the rise of capitalism, the Protestant Reformation, and the spread of humanism accelerated the growth of individualism. Fortunately for modern Americans, the colonization of this country occurred simultaneously with the breakdown of the old civilization; the seeds of individual rights were planted in the new soil by people who manned the first boats. In addi- tion to this heritage, the new land had advantages inherent in its very youth: there was no wreckage of feudalism to obstruct, and the necessity of hard work prevented the estab- lishment of any rigid class system. This self-reliance and self- discipline were later voiced in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Special legislation was necessary, however, to insure the rights of mistreated minorities. In 1920 the Nineteenth Amend- ment gave nation-wide suffrage to women. In 1963 the first comprehensive civil rights bill was introduced for the benefit of people who had been treated as second class citizens even «a hundred years after their theoretic emancipation.
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