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The Guiding Principle That A Policy Of Freedom For The Individual Is The Only Truly Progressive Policy Remains As True Today As It Was In The Nineteenth Century.

If We Wish To Preserve A Free Society, It Is Essential That We Recognize That The Desirability Of A Particular Object Is Not Sufficient Justification For The Use Of Coercion.

Even When Men Approve Of The Same Arrangements, It Must Be Asked Whether They Approve Of Them Because They Exist Or Because They Are Desirable In Themselves. The Common Resistance To The Collectivist Tide Should Not Be Allowed To Obscure The Fact That The Belief In Integral Freedom Is Based On An Essentially Forward-looking Attitude And Not On Any Nostalgic Longing For The Past Or A Romantic Admiration For What Has Been.

What A Free Society Offers To The Individual Is Much More Than What He Would Be Able To Do If Only He Were Free.

It Is One Of The Saddest Spectacles Of Our Time To See A Great Democratic Movement Support A Policy Which Must Lead To The Destruction Of Democracy And Which Meanwhile Can Benefit Only A Minority Of The Masses Who Support It. Yet It Is This Support From The Left Of The Tendencies Toward Monopoly Which Make Them So Irresistible And The Prospects Of The Future So Dark.