FREEDOM

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4536, 13 February 1942, Page 3

FREEDOM

PARADOXICAL SITUATION “The singular paradox of freedom is that we cannot possess it unless we are willing to give it up. By renouncing my barbaric wish to do whatever I please, I enable my neighbour to do some of the things he ' pleases, and thus, by consenting to restrict and restrain our desires, we enable each other to'enjoy more of them than we otherwise, should. The rule of the road does not impede traffic; It entbles traffic to get along. It does not reduce the speed of the swift to that of the slow, but allows both to move at the pace at which they are fit to move. If there were no rule of the road, if a man might move how and where he pleased, on the right side of the road at one'moment, on the left at the next, there would be no traffic: there would, instead, be collision and confusion, disaster and death. Law is the condition of liberty. We can-

not live in association without rules I and regulations which we must obey. I Those rules and regulations must, 11 repeat, emerge from our experience i

and our wish that the good life shall be generally enjoyed. They must not be inflicted upon us. by irresponsible bosses.—Mr St. John Ervine.