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A sentence is missing in the paragraph given below. Decide in which blank (i.e., 1, 2, 3 or 4) the following sentence would fit best. Sentence: From that tradition many of our intellectuals are visibly turning away. Paragraph: The word 'ancient' emphasises the fact that intellectual freedom is a deep-rooted tradition without which our characteristic western culture could only doubtfully exist. (1). They have accepted the principle that a book should be published or suppressed, praised or damned, not on its merits but according to political expediency. (2) . And others who do not actually hold this view assent to it from sheer cowardice. But at least let us have no more nonsense about defending liberty against Fascism. (3)______ If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (4)______ . The common people still vaguely subscribe to that doctrine and act on it. In our country, it is the liberals who fear liberty and the intellectuals who want to do dirt on the intellect: it is to draw attention to that fact that I have written this preface.