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Man starts as a savage. Liberty arises from the expression of his desires. Each individual desires from his plane of unfoldment. The desires of the savage are as legitimate, and therefore as holy, to the Father's sight, as are the desires of the Madonna. Each will still cry for more freedom till there is no consciousness of limitation then will the self-consciousness of individuality be lost in its Perfection. "I, the imperfect, adore my own Perfection," says Emerson. This Perfect is the One that cries for Liberty and finds it.

In the history of Human Emancipation, physical slavery was the first to go. This slavery was in its inception merely the protection of the weak by the strong. The law of Self-Preservation created every tyranny. The freedom of West India Slaves, of Russian Serf and the American Slave was only the rifting of the rock of the protection of the individual, from the outside, that the individual might, through self-protection, need less communal protection. It is a step toward individuality. But only in so far as master and slave were emancipated within, through desire for larger liberty, were they really emancipated. They are both unfolding still freeing themselves from those mental conditions that made physical slavery necessary.

Civil liberty, we declare, is won. We have embodied it ideally in constitutional law, through an inspired document which says: "Man is created free and equal, and endowed by his Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This is ideally perfect. But where is it in the actual?

Look about and see if Man has reached his ideal? Is not this Nation today struggling with a tyranny as bitter and oppressive as ever a nation did? But till recently it was not aware it was enslaved.