Excerpt from Brown Alumni Monthly, Vol. 89: June/July 1989 Somehow, this is seen as tolerable, a gag rule with a cause, but there are sev eral problems. First, there can always be posited mitigating circumstances which justify censorship: wrong time, wrong film, wrong atmosphere. Therefore, the field is wide open for abuse. Second, an action such as this expos es our fear of controversy. Are we so afraid of what will emerge from an ih formed exchange that we must ban its source? Does this not simply insult our abilities, as sentient humans, to see clearly and discuss rationally? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.