When
Attalus II, King of Pergamos, was founding the famous city which he intended to be the seat of Græco-Asian culture in Lydia, indeed in Asia, he gave it the name of Philadelphia, meaning love of the brethren, in token of the unshaken loyalty and affection of the king for his own brother.
The
world, Hamlet declared, upon a famous occasion, was out of joint, and he went on to regret the despite which had made of him the instrument for its regeneration.
Men
are occupied with questions political, balancing preferences, valuing promises, assaying threats, in an endeavor to establish states and estates, while about them swirls the mesmerism of fear, pride, ambition, malignity, and self-will.
In
the Bible we read, "And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven;" and in Science and Health.
Speak
to the ordinary man about a well-ordered world and he is quite apt to deny the reign of law altogether, declaring that never in the earth has there been so much disorder and overturning of old things.
While
men have always desired freedom, few have had the realization of what true liberty implies or of the nature of the bondage from which they long to be delivered.
