It Is Not Science That

We Cannot Live By Power, And A Culture That Seeks To Live By It Becomes Brutal And Sterile. But We Can Die Without It.

We All Run On Two Clocks. One Is The Outside Clock, Which Ticks Away Our Decades And Brings Us Ceaselessly To The Dry Season. The Other Is The Inside Clock, Where You Are Your Own Timekeeper And Determine Your Own Chronology, Your Own Internal Weather And Your Own Rate Of Living. Sometimes The Inner Clock Runs Itself Out Long Before The Outer One, And You See A Dead Man Going Through The Motions Of Living.

A Religion Which Has Lost Its Basic Conviction About The Interconnection Of Men With Men In Their Common Struggles For The Human, Will Never Command Belief In The Realm Of The Superhuman.

There Are Almost No Limits To The Discoveries Of How The Human Brain Operates In Illness And Health, In Sleep And Waking And Dreaming, In Calm And Under Tension. The Question Is How Far Man Can Put These Discoveries To Use Without Using Them Not For Cure But For Power.

Meiklejohn's Position Is That Free Speech In A Democracy Is Not An Absolute Flowing From The Boundless Source Of Some Presumed 'natural Right.' It Is A Practical Necessity Of 'self-government By Universal Suffrage,' For If The Citizens Are Not Permitted To Argue Out The Issues Of Government, How Can They Be What They Must Be In A Democracy - The Rulers As Well As The Ruled?