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How fragile civilization is; how easily,
how merrily a book bums," wrote
Salman Rushdie when a group of English Moslems publicly burned copies of his novel, "The Satanic Verses," in West Yorkshire last month. The powers of reason and imagination are indeed the underpinnings of our civilization.
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