… is from page lix of the late John Chamberlain‘s Forward as it appears in the 2021 70th anniversary edition of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s, 1951 book, God and Man at Yale.
[T]here is no compulsion on the decent human being to be “with history” when history is driving headlong toward an abyss. The compulsion to be “with history” denies the moral freedom of man.