Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Moore chose as his text the twelfth verse of the second chapter of St. James' Epistle: "So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by the law of liberty." At the outset of university life, the speaker said, a man comes into a new freedom of thought and action. The restrictions and guiding influences which have surrounded the boy are gone, and the man is at liberty to think and do as he chooses. It is not unnatural that he is tempted to eat of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil...
Again, in intellectual things freedom brings new responsibility. No one exact theory or any branch of knowledge is recognized throughout a university, and on all subjects a man is encouraged to question, to form his own opinions. Because he is free to form his own opinion of truth, he is responsible for seeking more diligently after truth...
...Absolute freedom in religious matters, also, is given to the university man. There is no one creed, no universal pressure of opinion for any one. Old forms of worship begin to seem childish, and men wonder if all religion is a thing equally as childish as those forms. The free man is bound to investigate fairly religious truths, and if any will do the will of the Father, "he shall know of the doctrine, whether...
...Freedom is no ultimate thing. Freedom in act and thought is merely the opportunity to become free in spirit. Nor is any man free until his perception of truth becomes unerring and his response to it instinctive...
...entire matter. Consider for a moment the un-impeachable conduct of British colonial officials, separated by thousands of miles from the home government. The only thing that keeps their actions always above reproach is an active, alert, public opinion, no less evident in India than in London itself. Freedom of the press there has a real meaning, for the columns of the daily newspapers are used constantly by a watchful public as one means of securing faithful public servants. This is brought about by incessant criticism and fault-finding, that to the American mind is very distasteful. That...