That article stimulated a deluge of protesting letters to the editor, and the Century saw fit to
editorialize («A Road with Pitfalls,» June 29, 1960), indicating that
such an overwhelming negative response «would suggest a prevalent antipathy still to the sort of universalism championed by Hocking and Toynbee and now by Mr. Ferm,» and that the road ahead appears, «at least to many Century readers, rocky and snare - ridden.»