Реферат: Jospeh Freeman

GPU or the FBI. The way to find out is by the logical methods of science, by the genuine.

democratic process in politics and by the creative methods of the arts aflame with

imagination and love.

For if we do not love each other, we will never liberate each other. And if we do not

love each other, we cannot help each other or the world. If we continue to hate each

other, we will wipe each other off the face of the earth with the greatest of our

discoveries so far — atomic energy.

Love, you say — ha! ha! That’s for the pulpit and Sunday.

You are wrong, gentlemen. Democracy and socialism would never have been possible even

as an ideal, as a dream, as a vision without the notion of man’s humanity. And this would

never have been possible without the notion of man’s divinity.

Why is it wrong for men to enslave, oppress and kill each other? Primitive man did not

think it was wrong and neither did pagan man. It became wrong when Vedantism, Buddhism,

Judaism and Christianity developed the notion that God created man in His own image or

that God is man or that man is God.

This was the birth of personality. It was also, in a way, the birth of the Blues. For

personality means not only freedom but also responsibility, sin and guilt. But the whole

point of personality is redemption from sin and guilt, the whole point is freedom!

It was then that it became wrong to enslave, oppress and kill our fellow men. Why?

Because from that point of view every one of us in every nook and cranny of the world is

the creation of God, a child of God, and he who kills man kills the divine.

It has said that resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Who said that? Marx? Lenin?

No, gentlemen. Saint Thomas Aquinas said that. If, said the early church, men are driven

to choose between the unjust laws of the king and the just laws of God, let them rather

kill the king than disobey God.

[Candide coughs, takes another drink of water and goes on]

It was the early church that developed the idea of revolution which the leaders of

democracy in this country and elsewhere, and from them the leaders of socialism took over

as part of their cultural and moral heritage.