e the grade as a civilization. The millennium was at hand.But the hopes were destroyed; atomic energy was used as a threat, open or implied to frighten other countries. He preferred painful, distressing truth to a peace-giving lie.He chose his way, and understood that every lab in the country was under pressure buy the military men and the people who had deliberately confused the bomb with atomic energy. He says: “ I’m not going to be any Earl Fox. No student will hear me say, “ What difference does it make?” Everything makes a difference now.Indifference is condemnation of the human race said Febermaher. Indifference is innocence sinister, which makes the minds and souls deliberately atrophied. When Americans asked, with horror, “ How could the Germans be made to believe such things?” Febermaher was tempted to reply, “ What makes Americans think that they would be any different”. Indifference is the bovine stupidity with which a herd of cows watch one of their own number being slaughter. And this sinister innocence is the ultimate cruelty of the universal kind. In America it is called cruelty, in Europe, the other side of the coin was called practicality....
