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We Are Born To Action And Whatever Is Capable Of Suggesting And Guiding Action Has Power Over Us From The First.

So Far As Discipline Is Concerned, Freedom Means Not Its Absence But The Use Of Higher And More Rational Forms As Contrasted With Those That Are Lower Or Less Rational.

The Idea Of Freedom Is Quite In Accord With A General, Though Vague, Sentiment Among Us; It Is An Idea Of Fair Play, Of Giving Everyone A Chance; And Nothing Arouses More General And Active Indignation Among Our People Than The Belief That Some One Or Some Class Is Not Getting A Fair Chance.

If The Man Succeeds In Becoming Indifferent To The Opinions Of His Neighbors He Runs Into Another Danger, That Of A Distorted And Extravagant Self Of The Pride Sort, Since By The Very Process Of Gaining Independence And Immunity From The Stings Of Depreciation And Misunderstanding, He Has Perhaps Lost That Wholesome Deference To Some Social Tribunal That A Man Cannot Dispense With And Remain Quite Sane.

When One Has Come To Accept A Certain Course As Duty He Has A Pleasant Sense Of Relief And Of Lifted Responsibility, Even If The Course Involves Pain And Renunciation. It Is Like Obedience To Some External Authority; Any Clear Way, Though It Lead To Death, Is Mentally Preferable To The Tangle Of Uncertainty.