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The Enigma of Freedom
Seagle, William | June 19, 1929 issue

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The article discusses some books like "Freedom in the Modern World," edited by Horace M. Kallen and "Liberty in the Modern World," by George Bryan Logan. It has been one of the noteworthy circumstances of the evolution of Anglo-Saxon freedom that its great victories have been effected with little reference to abstract intellectual ideas. The patient and plodding Englishman of fable attacked each obstacle to freedom as it arose, and garnered his liberties one by one, such as they were. He treated the great problems of human freedom as he did the private controversies of his common law which required the embarrassing formulation of general principles only indirectly, and as a disagreeable necessity.

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LIBERTY in the Modern World (Book); FREEDOM in the Modern World (Book); COMMON law; LAW, Anglo-Saxon; LITERATURE; CUSTOMARY law
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