Draft Article in Hungarian (1919)

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"Once upon a time, the apostates, the atheists, were called free thinkers.

We have been past this for a long time. Even among atheists, there are countless prejudiced, petty-bourgeois-minded, unscrupulous souls who can be called everything rather than free-thinking.

By freedom of spirit we do not mean that it recognizes neither truth, nor right, nor authority.

On the contrary, he relentlessly seeks the truth, follows the command of morality, practices the law, and recognizes the authority. Relentlessly and consistently, without backing off any gaze and turning the drowsiness of the human mood into eternal vigilance. He seeks and seeks the truth in spite of and behind all kinds of class and racial truths, follows pure morality in spite of and beyond the morals of the moralists, stands on the foundation of the law in spite of the law, and bends only before the authority of the good and the righteous, turning away from all unscrupulous success and arrogance of power from his authority.

Relentlessly and without hesitation. Not bribed or compromised by any comfort, any inner sluggishness or outer hair, any spiritual habit or cheap fashion.


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Original Publication: Cikkszám magyar nyelven
KPA: 01/28 (Two versions: the first is hand-written (5 p.), and the second is typed (2 p.)
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