To the Editor of the "Nonrn-Cutna Datey News"
Sin—Oceasionally one reads an article that opens one's eyes, refreshes and invigorates like a cold douche on "the moring after." Such is the con:
"Civilization and_ Liberty fay Muir to the September number of the "Nineteenth Century and After"; and T should like to take the ibeity of commending, through your columns, this article to all and sundry.
Ravrsay Muir points to the fact that the astounding progress of the huma race during. last four centuries—up te recent years, that is, when it) threatened with reversal—has its cause in two root-principles, one, the Greek veneration for the power of human reason, and the other, the Christian conception of the equality Jof value of all men, these two principles giving birth to the idea of Liberalism, which has been the "tremendous explosive force" driving, the world to progress through dove. tion to five forms of freedom
namely, however, "under regulation of law, freedom of the person: the abolition of slavery: security of every" mal analyst the possibility: of arrest. ime risenment "or personal violence ther than by. process mind: freedom for all think and believe, publish what freedom of (enterprise: freedom from {rading. prohibitions, which, "under Fegulation of law." has. been the ibis tree tom et i over The ne of the ur for Ideas, for men. for goods and for capita {reed in government: political "fberls—the "crown of the whole structure of teecdom.
Devotion to these five forms of freedom, the writer tales, has demonstrated that human society can tho organized upon a basis of liberty regulated by." law For the marvellous advance of the modern fige_in knowledge, in wealth and Kindliness: the progressive unification of the world; the visible possibility of era of secure peace and widely diffused prosperity—all were due to
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