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Principles of Freedom

CHAPTER XIII
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What we have grown accustomed to, the bitterness, the recriminations, the persecutions and retaliations, are all the evil weeds of prejudice, growing around our principles and choking them.

They are so far a denial of principle, a proof of mental slavery.

Our freedom will attest to faith: "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty." VIII This, in conclusion, is the root of the matter: to claim freedom and to allow it in like measure; rather than to deny, to urge men to follow their beliefs: only thus can they find salvation.

To constrain a man to profess what we profess is worse than delusion: should he give lip service to what he does not hold at heart, 'twere for him deceitful and for us dangerous.

Where his star calls, let him walk sincerely.


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