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"The struggle of the democracies against the dic- 
tatorships is not only a fight for freedom to live, a 
fight to satisfy physical and emotional hunger, but it 
is just as importantly at present and even more im- 
portantly for the future, a fight for the freedom to 
think. 
"In this struggle the Museum stands at the forefront 
of the institutions designed to satisfy intellectual 
hunger. The Museum is not limited like the public 
Museum 
like the college or university solely to the educated. 
The Museum does not like the library, serve only the 
literate. The Museum deals with all peoples on all 
levels and can reach out to meet the intellectual 
hunger of all people of every degree on all levels of 
intellectual attainment. It is democracy s most im- 
it agency for the spread of honest understanding 
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Reprinted from the 76th annud rep^J^^'J mura 
to the Trustees of The Amencan J^^^'Jthe City 
History, and to The Municipal Authorities of vne 
of New York, New York. 
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