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The fourth is the idea of Freedom, as the basis alike of 

 personal development and social co-operation, which 

 emerges in the modern reconstruction of ethico-religious 

 idealism. But broader and deeper than any definite 'dis- 

 covery 5 is the subtle and penetrative change effected by 

 * reconstruction 5 as a whole, which transforms rights and 

 duties from restrictive laws into constituent conditions of 

 the desirable life, and though it leaves Morality the master 

 of man makes it the servant of humanity. These dis- 

 coveries find their ultimate meaning in the conception of 

 a spiritual order not imposed on humanity from without, 

 but growing up within, and directed, through the control 

 of mechanical conditions and by the development of its 

 own many-sided activities, to the fulfilment of the vital 

 capacities of the race. The development of thought, which 

 renders the mind of the race self-conscious, is completed by 

 the development of will, which renders it self -determining. 



