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there may be a need to strengthen one's own convictions p. 22 Y# Ayn Rand sees the roots of war in the excessive statism and unwarranted use of force in domestic affairs ........ p. 24 ", True liberty is found only by doing what we ought because we want to and not because we have to p. 33 ", Dr. Carson concludes his series on The Flight from Reality with a timely warning to those reformist dreamers who imagine they can combine pen and sword to have their cake and eat it, too ........ p. 36 ~ Had he written it today instead of in 1883, William Graham Sumner could not have commented more ap propriately on the disastrous conse quences of union political practices ........ p. 56 ~John Chamberlain makes the most of the literary travelogue through The Best Times of John Dos Passos ........ p. 60 ", The Generosity of Americans by Arnaud C. Marts is reviewed by Richard Christenson p. 63 Anyone wishing to communicate with authors may send first-class mail in care of THE FREEMAN for forwarding.

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