Quiz... Ποιος τα είπε?

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The student of the history of progressive thought is well aware that every idea in its ear ly stages has been misrepre­sented, and the adherents of such ideas have been maligned and persecuted. One need not go back two thousand years to the ti me when those who believed in the gospel of Jesus were thrown in to the arena or hunted in to dungeons to realize how little great beliefs or earnest believers are understood . The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu­lar cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body , or woman ' s right to her soul. If, then, from time immemo­rial, the New has met with opposition and condemnation, why should my beliefs be exempt from a crown of thorns? "What I believe" is a process rather than a finality . Final­ities are for gods and governments, not for the human intel­lect.

By example I mean the actual living of a truth once recognized, not the mere theorizing of its life element.

A practical scheme , says ............, is either one al­ready in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions ;