THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



end at which to aim. Not liberty, but 

 regulation and restriction are the 

 watchwords of to-day, and they are 

 made so in what is sincerely believed 

 to be the greater public interest. John 

 Stuart Mill, in his classic essay "On 

 Liljerty," saw and described these ten- 

 dencies nearly fifty years ago, but even 

 his clear vision did not foresee the 

 length to which restrictions on liberty 

 have now been carried. 



Just as the driving force of an en- 

 gine is to be found in the steam chest 

 and not in the l:)rake, so the driving 

 force in civilization will be found in 

 liberty and not in restriction. The 

 cycle will, in due time and after a 

 colossal waste of energy and of ac- 

 complishment, complete itself, and lib- 

 erty will once more displace regula- 

 tion and restriction as the dominant 

 idea in the minds of men. It is worth 

 your while to take note, therefore, that 

 while liberty is not now in the fore- 

 ground of human thinking and human 

 action, it cannot long be kept out of 

 the place which of right and of neces- 

 sity belongs to it. 



The only logical and legitimate re- 

 striction upon liberty is that which is 

 drawn from the like liberty of others. 

 That men may live together in family, 

 in society, and in the State, liberty 

 must l)e so self-disciplined and so self- 

 controlled that it avoids even the ap- 

 pearance of license or of tyranny. 



There are three possible ways of 

 viewing and of stating the relationship 

 1)etween the individual and the group 

 or mass of which he forms a part. 



In the first place, each individual 

 may be regarded as an end in himself 

 whose pur]ioses are to be accomplished 



at all hazards and quite regardless of 

 what happens to his fellows. This is 

 that extreme form of individualism 

 which has always ended, and must al- 

 ways end, in physical conflict, in cruel 

 bloodshed, in violent anarchy, and in 

 the triumph of brute force. It does not 

 provide a soil in which ideas can 

 flourish. 



In the second place, each individual 

 may be regarded as a mere nothing, a 

 negligible quantity, while the group or 

 mass, with its traditions, its beliefs, 

 and its rituals, is exalted to the place of 

 honor and almost of worship. The 

 logical and necessary result of this 

 view has alwa3^s been, and must al- 

 ways be, from the standpoint of human 

 accomplishment in institutions, stag- 

 nation, powerlessness, and failure. It 

 is this view of life which has from 

 time immemorial held so many of the 

 great peoples of the Orient in its grip 

 and which has set them in sharp con- 

 trast with the active and advancing life 

 of the West for nearly two thousand 

 years past. 



The third view of the relationship 

 of the individual man to the group or 

 mass is the one that I would press upon 

 you as oft'ering the fullest measure of 

 individual happiness and achievement 

 and the greatest amount of public good. 

 It stands between the philosophy of 

 self-assertion, of disorder, of brute 

 force, and of anarchy on the one hand, 

 and the stagnation of an unprogressive 

 civilization on the other. It is the view 

 which emphasizes the individual to the 

 utmost, but which finds the conception 

 of each individual's personality and ac- 

 complishment in his relations to his 

 fellows and in his service to his kind. 

 "He that loseth his life shall find it" 



