Article August 10, 1935 Issue

Freedom

MARGARET H. ANDERSON

There lies in every human heart an ineradicable desire for freedom. Yet the concepts of what constitutes true freedom are so many and varied that definitions of this term would probably differ according to individual ambition, environment, and experience. All would unite, however, in the desire to be freed from the bondage of suffering, from anxiety, sorrow, misfortune, injustice, and poverty.

Throughout the world's history mortals have longed for and sought for a way of permanent release from these ills. The unselfed efforts of noble men and women, of reformers and philanthropists, devoted to this end, are not lost; their labors have alleviated human suffering and have enriched the world.

It has to be admitted, however, that human theories in regard to mankind's liberation from evil have not stood the test of radical and searching inquiry. Nor have material methods and means provided the universal and all-inclusive remedy for physical and mental suffering. Diseases, some of which are still classed as incurable, have increased in name and in type, and oftentimes mortals seem to be the helpless victims of evil happenings, of the vagaries of chance and change.

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