Article August 4, 1923 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from David Saville Muzzey, John Scott Haldane, R. Seeberg, Phillip Snowden, Calvin Coolidge, Rudolph Coffee

[Prof. David Saville Muzzey, in the Citizen, Brooklyn, N. Y., April 30, 1923]

Among the most precious possessions in our heritage is the gift of our spiritual emancipation. We have begun to liberate society from the shackles of feudalism. We have begun to emancipate our political thought from the tyranny of despots. One after another these liberations have come through the boldness of men who have often paid with their lives for suggesting that things should be different. It is blindness to think that to-day's civilization with its injustices, its squalor, its slums, its poverty, is the perfect order. If we yield to those who wish to suppress the dissenters, we are traitors to our heritage. Let us increase as we please in money and goods, we are still going the way of the ruined nations of the world if we allow the heritage of our spiritual freedom to be dimmed.

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