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under which they lie. Common senSU should have told us centuries ago that it is. dangerous to make un idol of either.com- pulson or of herty. Liberty in itself, Human beings do not become loss oild without seme kitud öf definition. is a mers as the world grows older. There are formula, u negation. All the rent pessimists who tell us that we are all get struggles for freedom reinain an inspira ting more and more aliko and more and tion to us only because the men who took more commonplace. But they cannot be part in them desired to do something very, good observers of the world about worth doing or to say something worth say- them. They have a preceived notion. They fought, no doubt, for å fri that because we five in all age of machin dom' that would permit a man to say or «ry, we tansi ourselves resemble the proxinets do much that was wrong as well as much of machines. People who take this vien that was right; but, if they admitted the go to see R.U.Bal as they come out liberty to do weng, it was because they of the theatre, they say, "Yes, that is what regarded this as one of the indispersable we are all coming, to," They believe, in culitions of the fibers ig do right. The deel, that most of us are Robots already, belief in freedom is an net of faith in the They believe still more strongly that most human conscience or it is nothing. It is Americans are Robots. All Americans, a belief that given freedum congrience! they say, like to do the same things as all will more aüül, more giveru hinunn äfairs, ther Americans. They all like to begin Thas a man may believe in freedom of wearing straw bats on the same day. If speech and yet dislike many of the results as feartily n those they rend hooks, they all wil the same of freestom of speech book- If they go to see a fotball match who would censor it. He would be in a they all like to yell at the same place, and perfectly logical position if, while attack- no spectator dars to yell till the signaling the censorship of plays for instance, hi has been given by the Yoller in Chief: 1st the same time attacked most of the have never visited Anterica, and I cannot play that had some under the lau.of the
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censorship. He dislikes the machine of
true meture se a caricature. I faucy the repression in literature, not because he machine-made huniau being is proportion faits to realise that it would be much better ately no more common in civilise cou if most plays and books had never been tries today, than he was in ages in which written, im beenuse he believes that the tutemim seemed as modem as psychon human imagination and the human cou- lysis does to us. It has been the tendency agence express themselves mere fully and of men from the earliest tits to invent mo
more splendidly in literature in en aml Mysteracial
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u ee of which was to run religion, in polities in morals, be he mosphere freedom than of restraint. systems--the object 'of
Good men them into a comman
image. have been in revolt ugning: the worship is in the freedom of his enemies, he is the best cause he considers that it of such systems for the sands of years, guarantee of the freedom of his friends. They have warned their fellows of the He tolerates in order that he may be to grase danger of mistaking mechanical for vented. He tolerates a lie in the sense Spiritual obedience. Seurre of great way of giving a liar the right to utter it) us g such as "The letter killeth. but the price of the toleration of the truth. spirit maketh alive are protests against He believes in freedom, in other words, not the easy belief that men can be saved so much as an abstract doctrine, but h through machine Even
cause on the whole, freedom works better. than its alternative.
horn folator, and he is never more pass sionate idolator, than when the in machine. If he rebels against que system. he turus his rebellion into another system.
He equally rigid within a generation. cannot believe that men can be go unless they are compelled to be good, and so he is perpetually engaged in creating coum of taboos and compulsions. Tak the primitive tribe, and you will fini mun living as a slave to such a code. He is the prisoner of his own imperatives. He has invented a tyranous machine" at forbid him, it may be, to eat what he likes or to marry whom he likes or even think what he likes, Civiivation has often been, represented-especially in the teenth century as a machine that destroys he original freedom smart. The righ teenth century, however, knew very little about savages, and closer inspection of bar- barogs races has revealed them as creatins no more free from chains than ourselves.
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neg populate for the hot the planet were most part Robots before they have acquired souls, For Not that any same man could ery long so miserable a moon as that. His longing:
Robotry is nothing but a temporary
that human b xpression of the feeling that ing ought really to learn to restrain themselves in their sillier moments. There were several young men fixed in London the I seems likely inkei, that givilisation other day for geing aut en to Hampstead has released man from more chains than Heath between five nad six in the morning
and breaking
them i has imposed on him. The philosophic
up chairs and throwing Radical of the neteenth century lived into the Hampstead ponds. This kind of that to release man from his chains was behaviour seems to me perfectly appalling. the chief function of civilisation. All that I can understank a young man ng as the Radient asked in his polities was the row in the morning. I
like any time betweh Sun- removal of restraints. He believal in free set" and two
dislike trade, in free contract in
his free competition,
rowiliness, can recognier | nd in free churches (if any). He shrank him as a brother who has merely become a
HEAD OFFICE: from patting restrains even on a bad ein- little mad after dark. Somebody has said
NEW YORK CITY. ployer. He disliked the Factory Acts that after dark men become four-footed. most as much as he disliked Protection. The domesticutis animal called H ilea of freedom, unfortunately, gen comes 4 wild beast again.
INTERNATIONAL Crous as it was in it origin, ultimately excited and exhilarated like the Evenme mechanical and formal. He the jungle. But. to go on breaking chairs
BANKING-HIPPING-THAVEL solised the freedom of industry to such and using obscene language long after a point that he was willing to sacrifice to
Sunrise
a perversity of misbehaviour
Eighty Offices are established in the Principa Tet, accling to the Cities of the World to provide Commercia women and that hacks me. children. He had not a mind to see that the Organisations and Private Individuals with
roreplete World Wide Hanking, Shipping soẻ. may be the curing of the spirit of freedout. make a regular practice of this Hamp
Travel Service. Those who mplain that wo and he fought like a fanatic to preserve all becoming Robots should rejcice at an instrument of freedom that, if allowed are fall scope, would bave turned men and this evidence that en uler ur rigid. women into (as rhetoricians said) white social system, there is still much klaves, Luckily or unlu annirs, and
variety of behaviour. the pendulum
I confes fr never ceases to swing in
a Robotist that I prefer monetony of men. seeing what terrible things on behaviour in most of those things that con
Politeness, interference led to. became enthusiasts for cern good manners.
Har onderling || interference again, Sir William
these things minku court made himself immortal, be saving But they do not make men state. rar do nonotony like the evening dre of men. we are all Socialists new" (which was not quite true, and the tendency in the they rob life of the really important modern State has bere ingre and more to
kind
that the of variety. It is
their wages, pean mor hours of closing shops, and in the general
manner euior the greatest variety conditions of employment, And
their if
general lives. There is a de the fin State does not interfere, the Trade Uurin
of our of exchanging the
spirit for Rood manners do. Everywhere systems base grown things. But half the charm of the lives ** in many other strong that at present great London offices!
of the comfortable classes is due to the fact have not freedom of choice even in such they are bumi by a cade that makes for Travel franssction.
elurk. Som
Keral
it the freedua; of wohciently subtle police evidence there are large gangs
matter a pro
people and
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the servile State. Others are equally e come shives, if you care to put it in that vinced that, by all this increase of inter way, in order that they may be free. It
kave al succeeded in in like at half Robots, but it is
Ja ferences, we
that th
man and the poor the righ
is
creasing the freedom of the average me. Many of the latter, indred..
切 still further along the
path of proibitions for
pro
bable that it lenst
half a houd fur wach of us to be at
There is as sories
Robot is either. 'n madman or a bad man---7he Now States-
the good of the average man. They would danger of our being Robots to too small like to introduce one kind of compulsionate too great a degree. Here, at clio- from America or another kind from Russia. where, we must work the golden menn. Never has there been an age in which the The man who is not half idolatry of restraint has been so general. And now there are signs that the ped lum of opinion is about to swing back again, and no doubt we shall see before
long a revival of Bailiealism, with its THE METHOD OF MOUNTING idolisel formula af non-isterference.
INTERFEILENCE.
spectacle glasses is of the greatest in
It is a most unfortunate thing that we portance," writes Dr. C. Hartridge, are so made that it is apparently impos- FR.C.S., Ophthalmic Surgegn and sible for us all to see all the time that in-
enc
terference is good and that non-interfer Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the is good, but that a judicious mixture Westminster Hospital, "they "must be of interference and non-interference is best accurately centred in frames that are
of all. We are ercatures so bewildered in
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