It means fully conscious, or aware of what’s around them.
Aggression. Hard civility is often aggressing and the action of sneering is also.
Are u referring to a book or something else?
Answer: are these the quotes?
"...you imagine me, and some other writers, too, as being sort of rat-like people who enjoy maing money from poisoning the minds of young people." (paragraph 5)
"If you were to bother to read my books...you would learn theat they are not sext, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind." (Paragraph 6)
"Yes, yes-but it still remains our right and our responsibility to decided what books our children are going to be made to read in our community.' This is surely so." (Paragraph 7)
"If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own." (Paragraph 7)
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