ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses cases as marking a new phase in the ancient conflict between freedom and authority. Dayton and Chicago are exceptional only in the amount of attention they have received. They happened to lend themselves to the art of ballyhoo. Among the events on which the modern art of ballyhoo has been practised there are two at least which are not likely to be forgotten soon. The world laughed at Dayton and Chicago, but it has not yet laughed them off. It is quite natural, that this generation should have witnessed the spectacles at Dayton and Chicago. There is a considerable advantage in compelling men to defend their opinions against attack. It does add to the dignity of scholarship to remember that men have died not only for their gods and their flags, but for the freedom of the human mind.
