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blow. Only the growing of the tree causes the leaves to fall off—pushed off from within. In like manner, freedom comes from the unfolding of the inner life. "I am an unfolding Soul," is the Affirmation of Freedom. Arbitrary attempts to free another result only in another form of enslavement. Norway breaks the link that holds her to Sweden only to enslave herself to some royal family.
Freedom does not consist in outward forms—does not consist in the definitions of yesterday.
How much liberty has each age, each people, each individual? All they can enjoy. As much as is created within the mind. For liberty is an ideal condition.
"Man never is but always to be blessed." What Norway now is doing, all men are doing—moving out from one limitation to their freedom into an easier one, which will ultimately grow equally irksome with the old. We break old links that we may forge new ones, that we may also break them, and so on how long? Is it forever? No!
This necessity of growth through creation and destruction is well illustrated today by the relations of capital and labor. Capital felt an enslavement to labor and created organizations for self-protection, which are a new slavery; and labor also created its organizations, in which the individual is enslaved to the organization. When all of these grow wiser they will create lighter fetters. Why is this condition necessary? Because neither the work man nor his employer can free himself from himself. These fetters lie within their thought; represent the present unfoldment of Infinite Wisdom in them. They are enslaved to their ideals, and also freed from old conditions by these same ideals.
Woman is remonstrating against what she terms marital slavery. Slavery exists for those for whom
