Free For All.

Freedom should be free to all in this terrestrial “free for all.” For centuries Man has been shedding, one by one, the enslaving links of Ignorance. Through blood, martyrdom and pain he has struggled towards enlightened liberation until, at last, he has achieved the privilege of utilising the nobler functions of his mind to the ends of charity and forbearance. This victory over his primeval barbarism, eked out of centuries of painful evolution is one of the few achievements to which he can point and say: “It is mine, honestly and painstakingly earned, and no man shall easily cheat me of it.”

The one property for the preservation of which progressive man is prepared to barter his life is his Liberty.

It may be a liberty qualified by beneficent expediency because, as yet, he has not reached that stage of spiritual perfection which alone could qualify him for the almost divine responsibility of complete liberty.