MODERN life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectiveness — the emancipation of [the] mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed[om] capacity of thought behind it is only chaos. If [the] external authority in action is given up, it must be because [the] internal authority of truth, discovered and known to reason, is substituted.