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insanity, blindly suicidal, a great opportunity will be missed. The despair itself should give us the profound calmness of strength, the grim determination which silently works its own fulfilment without wasting its resources in puerile emotionalism and self-thwarting destructiveness. This is the moment when it should be easy for us to forget all our accumulated prejudices against our kindred, when we must do our best to combine our hands in brotherly love even with those who have roughly rejected our call of comradeship, when we must claim of ourselves an intense urge of co-operation with all different parts of our Nation. This is the kind of catastrophe which rarely comes to a people, with a shock that brings to a focus our scattered forces and shortens the difficulties of our creative endeavour in the building of its freedom The primitive lawlessness of the law-makers should forcibly awaken us to our own ultimate salvation in a love undaunted by the menace of a power which bari cades itself with an indiscriminate suspicion that its blind panic cannot define. This is the time when we maust never forget our responsibility to prove ourselves morally superior to those who are physically powerful in a measure that can defy their own humanity. —from Modern Review, Feb. 1982 6 ebr