Freedom
Sir.—The word “freedom” is so often on the lips of our political leaders nowadays that a critical discussion of the idea seems worth while. To start such a discussion I will make two assertions. The first assertion is this: whatever freedom (“power of self-deter-mination”) is attainable must be shared equally by all men and women and not concentrated as at present in the hands of a few. Our social goal is not a vague “freedom” but “equality of freedom.” Next, the revolutionary founders of modern democracy of 1789 certainly set up freedom as a constituent of their triune goal along with equality and brotherhood. This goal was “one and indivisible” but had three faces (like the Christian Trinity). Alas, they tried -to realise it piecemeal; they violated the brotherhood by killing for the freedom. The second assertion is: freedom is possible only through brotherhood and equality.—Yours, etc., N. M. BELL. March 14, 1958.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 3
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