With Eyes to See

With such an assumption it is proper to ask ourselves how this can be done. What are the conditions essential for this needed reversal in form? Love prospers only in liberty. It generates and grows among free men; only with difficulty among men ruled by the principles of violence. As violence begets violence so does one personal act of kindness beget another. This point does not require any more proof than mere reflec tion on one's experiences with others. It is self-evident. Liberty, according to these views, is the key to the un ravelling of our Gordion knot. The natural aptness of man, acting as a self-controlling, self-responsible person, is good. The restraint of this aptness is evil. It is, then, 28 in liberty that man's natural aptness evolves toward its potentiality and its goodness. Now, to return to the beginning of this discussion and to the many persons who demand action when suddenly awakened to the increasing dangers which beset.our coun try. I wish, before setting forth some of my personal thoughts as to how liberty can be advanced, to inquire further into this demand for action, and to use the inquiry as a means of appraising some of the actions which this demand seems to generate. The appraisals are offered in humility and in the spirit of "take a look at them for what they're worth," not with the set notion that my ideas will prove to be ultimately right and those of others assuredly wrong. All earnest seekers of liberty will weigh with care the strengths and weaknesses in all methods proposed for its advancement. Let this be known, too: Those who spon sor the ideas I criticize, outnumber me a thousand to one.