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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1996)	9/12/1999 9:08:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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....

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (1996)	9/12/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6418

Charley, I'd be happy to comment on some of your candidates for Fraud Award, but I'll have to take a rain check for now. I have a mean ole' deadline to meet (an article that must be ready NO LATER THAN 5:00 p.m. tomorrow), and I have no business visiting SI, let alone posting on it...(Ah, these guilty pleasures!) <g> In particular, I'd like to check out your comments on Sanger, and still more, on Russell...Sounds improbable in view of the things Russell said later in life, but eugenics DID have a certain patina of respectability at one time (and is getting it again, under various guises, alas), and so, it is by no means impossible. Enjoy.