ready to die for somebody's else's ideas, if somebody tells him it is
necessary; but he is not ready to take the least bit of risk for his own
sake and ideas. There is not one voice to be heard in this noisy world
of today who would dare to show the common man how he really is
thinking, acting and feeling according to the education he suffered,
though all the voices are shouting: This is the age of the common man.
But if the common man is going "to take over the rule," then the first
condition would be that he sees the truth about himself, and that he
corrects himself. Everybody keeps reminding everybody else that the
truth must be said, but nobody really makes any attempt to this end.
It is the same whether you deal with workers or union officials, whether
you deal with doctors, educators or scientists. Your Haldanes and even
Bernals have been expecting what I actually have discovered for
several centuries. Now it is there. I have given more proof than any
scientist ever did about his discovery, and I have more to come. But
the only honest man in the crowd was that Examiner in Virginia who
said, "nothing doing, he may give as much proof as he wants." This is
the hidden and real attitude of every single one of them.
We have good reason to worry about the near future of decent
truthful work. There is a possibility that we shall have to keep quiet
for decades, and to write only for our desk drawers. And the core
of the whole matter is the sexual orgastic anxiety of the animal Man,
and nothing else. Everything else is consequence and not cause of this
one central fact. I am afraid that the cannons will keep on thundering
with short intervals-for centuries, maybe longer. They will not stop
thundering unless man finally discovers and learns to appreciate that he
is really nothing but an animal, a piece of living plasma which wishes
nothing more fiercely than to discharge energy by a few involuntary
contractions from time to time-besides food and housing. Well, that's
that. A rather unfriendly outlook. I really hope you will be able to
sustain and to develop further your good work. There are few things
in the world which are as badly needed as good and honest education.
In the next number of the journal we are also publishing the factual
things of the Einstein affair.
Please give my best regards to all good friends over there and extend
my hope that circumstances will permit that we meet soon.
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