This Freedom
“The fascinating paradox of human experience is that there are many frontiers to freedom, and that without its frontiers freedom would perish in a day. The policeman on point duty is one of them, and there is a rude rightness in his wrongness when be gives the lie to my abstract philosopher. Nevertheless, I refuse to abandon the abstract philosopher, even in a traffic jam. It is I who sit in the corner of this little car: I and no other—a person of no importance but still a-person with a will, a spirit, and a consciousness that are inalienably my own.
“There are moments, however, when one feels Intensely the- freedom and sovereignty of one’s own manhood; not selfishly and egotistically, but very humbly and with an overpowering sense of the greatness of the liberty with which nature has made us free.
“Why be unhappy because the laws of life work out their purposes, which are pot for an age or for a season or a time but (as many of us believe, and as modern science is on the eve or proclaiming) for eternity. Meanwhile, the great thing is to get on with our job.”——Canon Wilkinson in the “Glasgow Herald."
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 22
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203This Freedom Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 292, 5 September 1931, Page 22
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