There can be no assumption that today's majority is 'right' and the Amish and others like them are 'wrong.' A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
[No one will be able to] deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than Canute could command the tides.
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.