Is Censorship Useless as a Weapon Against Literary Obscenity?
” Current Comment, 56:298-99, April 1914. I63 Pros and cons from the American press. Lucian Cary of the Chicago Evening Post is quoted as writing: “The evils of censorship are certain even though its benefits doubtful. . . . There is only one way to discover the truth about an idea. That way is to set it free to fight for its life with other ideas. One idea can destroy another; nothing else can. But a dangerous idea is doubly dangerous for being suppressed. There have been superstitions which have persisted for ages simply because they have never been permitted to come out into the open and be destroyed.
