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it is the best and the only condition in which they can in the present live. It is slavery of ideas. When ideals of self are changed the slavery is outgrown. The woman, or man, who growls about his marital slavery will make others growl when lie gets out of his present conditions into a new one. Growling is a habit.

Josh Billings said: "He who growls because lie is poor will make you growl when he becomes rich!" Slavery, like worry, is a mental habit to be outgrown. He who recognizes himself as a slave to another must of necessity enslave some inferior. The woman who is slave to husband enslaves her servant, and the bookkeeper enslaved by his employer enslaves the cash-boy. To recognize slavery is to create it. Like disease, it dies out when no attention is paid to it.

The slave is slave because he does not know his power. He finds himself through slavery. The earliest prophecy of Man in that arboreal something of the primeval world, was completely enslaved that it might find out that it was Man. Through hanger he found use of rock and club, and freed himself but greater needs caused him to break, hammer and polish stone to melt ore and make the bronze, after necessity had sent him to the discovery of fire. Freer then, but still the slave, and he has gone on unfolding, till the elements, from fire and water up to radiant matter are now his slaves and free him to a like degree by making him conscious of himself. Thus liberty is only man in a larger expression of those forces and faculties which lie in that arboreal something-link between Man and brute. Liberty to do what he FEELS he can do. Thus liberty, like all human endeavor, begins in FEELING.

This feeling we term desire. Not desire for any particular thing, but desire for expression. That thing