ABSTRACT
In New York City the Board of Education investigated its textbooks, and Mayor John F. Hylan of New York had another uproarious investigation of his own. The same proceedings in one form or another were gone through in cities as far apart as Boston, Mass., and Portland, Oregon. Several states, New York, Wisconsin and Oregon, passed laws designed to do for patriotic fundamentalism what the Tennessee statute had been designed to do for religious fundamentalism. The relation between dogmas is more intricate and uncertain. People's wants create worries, their worries create prejudices, their prejudices demand guaranties, and under freedom of thought nothing is guaranteed. For the analysis of the implications of an idea we have no more convenient instrument than the Socratic dialogue. So the Dialogue on Olympus at the point where it was broken off, last night, is resumed.
