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The Bigotry of Science

Despite the ingrained certainty of the contemporary intellectual world that there never has been so flexible and so tolerant a society as ours, the truth of the matter is very nearly the opposite. Never, perhaps, has the intellectual imagination been held so tightly within a strait jacket as in these “enlightened” times. The bigotry with which Liberalism systematically attempts to destroy any person or idea or attitude that asserts the existence of a many-chambered universe, outside the arid and sterile cell in which the Liberal mind would confine the human imagination, becomes day by day more and more obvious.

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Frank S. Meyer

Frank S. Meyer was a senior editor of National Review.

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The Bigotry of Science

Despite the ingrained certainty of the contemporary intellectual world that there never has been so flexible and so tolerant a society as ours, the truth of the matter is very nearly the opposite. Never, perhaps, has the intellectual imagination been held so tightly within a strait jacket as in these “enlightened” times. The bigotry with which Liberalism systematically attempts to destroy any person or idea or attitude that asserts the existence of a many-chambered universe, outside the arid and sterile cell in which the Liberal mind would confine the human imagination, becomes day by day more and more obvious.