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I Am Convinced That Everything That Is Worth While In The World Has Been Accomplished By The Free, Inquiring, Critical Spirit, And That The Preservation Of This Spirit Is More Important Than Any Social System Whatsoever. But The Men Of Ritual And The Men Of Barbarism Are Capable Of Shutting Up The Men Of Science And Silencing Them Forever.

-Sinclair Lewis

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I Am Convinced That Everything That Is

Sinclair Lewis

I Am Convinced That Everything That Is Worth While In The World Has Been Accomplished By The Free, Inquiring, Critical Spirit, And That The Preservation Of This Spirit Is More Important Than Any Social System Whatsoever. But The Men Of Ritual And The Men Of Barbarism Are Capable Of Shutting Up The Men Of Science And Silencing Them Forever.

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