Read a commentary on the Abram's dissent, where Holmes made the first step toward articulating a "marketplace of ideas".

Holmes was suprisingly nihilistic, and I feel his formation of the search and competition for truth held now idealized beliefs of human behavior.

He accepted that people woudl be driven by their passions and biases, including things like a desire to create cohesion. That this was also something traded as a value and motivating force.