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Politics : To be a Liberal,you have to believe that.....

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1996)9/12/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 6418
 
The significance of Rousseau lies less in the substance of his defiance than in the fact that he dared to defy. Pushing the medieval floodgates open took a long time, and some of the first ones who squeezed through ended up a little deformed. But the gates finally opened, and free thought came out.

Free thought means we have to put up with some stuff we don't like. That is the nature of freedom.

Perhaps we could place all this on a more positive note; why don't you provide us a list of a dozen authors whose works you feel are lasting contributions to human progress? A sort of anti-index....
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