DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL
LIBERTY (Copyright, 1927.) is nothing so needful as liberty, and nothing that needs to be more clearly understood. When I say I want to be free to love, I mean that I want to be free to become a slave, for love is neither sweet nor true except it be a bondage. Free love is a contradiction of terms. It is not love unless it binds me irresistibly. Free thought, when it is a revolt against conviction, is absurd; it is only worthy when it means freedom to obey abjectly what seems to be the truth. Freedom in religion really means the right to follow my own religion, and not the absence of any reverence. Freedom, then, does not signify the absence of restraint; truth and love are both essentially absolute Czars. Freedom signifies simply that you shall not put your restraints upon me. For some people seem to agree with the Abbe Galiani: —“Liberty is the right to meddle with the affairs of others.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 16
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170DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 47, 18 May 1927, Page 16
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