All three were subsequently vindicated – sometimes in their lifetimes, sometimes not. What they shared is a paradoxical ethic common to all intellectuals: the end cause of truth justifies whatever means happens to be at your disposal.
随后，这三人在他们的身前和身后都得到了人们的维护和辩解。他们的共同点是所有知识分子共有的一个自相矛盾的道德规范：为追求最终的真理，可以采取任何方式，因为真理转瞬即逝，人们很少意识到它的到来，不是随时都能认知到它的存在的。