ABSTRACT
Vulgar relativism is an invisible gas, odorless, deadly, that is now polluting every free society on earth. It is a gas that attacks the central nervous system of moral striving. This most perilous threat to the free society today is neither political nor economic. It is the poisonous, corrupting culture of relativism. Truth is like the inner light with which evidence shines forth. We do not "have" the truth. Truth owns us. Truth possesses us. Truth is far larger and deeper than we are. Truth leads us where it will. It is not ours for mastering. Vulgar relativism corrodes, pollutes, consumes–and we need to learn again the language of the full human ecology, the ecology of liberty. Free societies, which have arisen rather late in the long evolution of the human race, may pass across the darkness of time like splendid little comets, burn into ashes, and disappear.
