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5. CITIZEN: Those who follow such objections will always help to block the sources from which humanity's progress flows. The opponents of the leaders of humanity who wanted to lead the new age out of the dark Middle Ages drew on such thinking. The nature of resistance is changing; today, people do not light pyres or torture geniuses, but they resist them in other ways. The spirit of gloom remains the same, it only changes its forms.