THE GOAL OF HUMAN PROGRESS.
. Lord" Bmh Cecil gave a most inter--5 esting frddrvss on Liberty in Edin- „ burgh m November last. In the course of l)is address he said: "Efberry was not a right; it was rather the groal of human progress. It was, Jn its full and complete measure, that towards which humanity was moving, and, naturally enough. tho?e who had gone least . | far upon the journey were less fit for the enjoyment of what perfect mankind would have than those who had gone somewhat farther. Humanity, it might be said, was on a journey between the animal and.the Divine, ' and as it progressed on that journey it became more and mora fit to enjoy the liberty whch was one of the characteristic attributes of divinity. The %vme principle of liberty, the - liberty which he ventured tn sug- , gesA. should be substituted for that i whfchj Mill la.Kj down—the trys, ground for ma mlairing liberty was that without liberty there could not V&e, frr awy #me snrise, virtue or righteousness. Virtue did not consist in doing right, but in choosing to do right. That was the great distinction, surely, between the animal and the man,. 7i 'l
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9677, 29 December 1909, Page 4
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199THE GOAL OF HUMAN PROGRESS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9677, 29 December 1909, Page 4
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