FREEDOM AND PROGRESS
BATTLE PERENNIALLY RENEWED
Lord Acton’s well-known dictum that the idea underlying all history is progress toward freedom may perhaps be challenged as a universal proposition, says The Times. But when it was written 60 or 70 years ago, it expressed the spirit which had imbued Western civilisation for 300 years; and few believed, in those times of optimism and faith, that that spirit would ever again be openly denied and rejected. In the chastened mood of today we know well that the battle for freedom is not fought and won once for all, but must be perennially renewed. The freedom of opinion, of speech, of action within the law, of association, taken for granted as an essential principle of civilised existence, is assailed by powerfully armed nations. "The freedom of every person to worship God in his own way,” originally proclaimed and asserted against fanatical and persecuting churches, must now be maintained against fanatical and persecuting totalitarian States.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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161FREEDOM AND PROGRESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1941, Page 6
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