The whole argument of Dr. Oekeley's admirable essay points to the need for a new and regenerated conception of freedom. Inspiration comes from the thorough-going manner in which certain important nations have deliberately, as it were, set iron bounds on their own personal freedom. The author points out the need for diffidence in attempting to diagnose this state of mind, for it is a very doubtful question whether an age can actually diagnose its own condition of health or disease with accuracy and sound judgment. This, or course, is another way of pointing out that only after-generations can know to what results the trends of a preceding age were to lead. Dr. Oakeley thinks, however, that there are cer-tem aspects of current thought which only the contemporary can discern and that it may po delusive io fall back on the view that posterity will be better equipped to penetrate to the true character and ihe motives and actions of its predecessors.
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