Abstract
In the name of order, authoritarian regimes have persecuted their most gifted sons. What is unusual is not that the Athenian court ruled the Socratic method to have corrupted their young and neglected their gods; or Henry VIII found Thomas More's refusal to validate his marriage to be treacherous; or the Papal Inquisition condemned Galileo's exposition of Copernican theory as false and erroneous. What makes them cause celebre is that Socrates elected to drink fatal hemlock rather than disavow his conduct; that More accepted decapitation rather than capitulating to his king; that Galileo chose imprisonment over acquiescence to the dominant Ptolmaic cosmology.
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