4 THE SUN. 



Reciprocity, therefore, is the law of liberty and the basis of 

 harmony in human relations.* Action and reaction being equal, 

 an equilibrium is maintained. This then is the one thing to be 

 subsei-ved. If liberty is arrested, it is only when it usurps that 

 of all. Then it is the arrest of only a limitation of liberty. 

 Where perfect liberty prevails, there will be perfect order, for 

 confusion cannot be conceived, where everyone has his owti 

 and attends to it. Therefore, liberty is not, as is generally 

 supposed, 'the daughter, but the mother of order.' Not your 

 liberty, solely, or my liberty, for this sect or that party, but a 

 universal, scientific liberty, verifiable by the rule of reciprocity 

 in social relations. 



T/ie Rationale of Liberty is that it presupposes the integrity 

 of nature; that it can be trusted; that it is safe to leave the 

 whole of virtue with the whole of vice. As a cure for the evils 

 of liberty, gxant more liberty, for evils tend to abolish them- 

 selves. There is more hope in freedom for vice, than virtuous 

 conformity in slavery. Activity is at last the only virtue and 

 eternal vigilance its price. 



STATUS OF THE INDIVIDUAL. 



Individuality. — The law of liberty emphasizes individuality. 

 As things differ, they become separate. Every round in the 

 ladder of life, whether as atoms, cells, organs, or persons, rests 

 upon an individual. Everything propagates after its kind, 

 there is no hybrid. Individuality is the condition hi expres- 

 sion and of genius. It is as inevitable as that a circle must 

 have a centre, as indestructible as consciousness, Avithout it, we 

 are not. In it we live and move and have our being. 



Individual Sovereignty. — Every individual is sovereign in 

 its own sjjhere, over its own affairs, a law unto itself, over 

 church and state, over treason and blasphemy. Individuals 

 existed before institutions, for them they exist, out of them 

 they are made. The individual has the right to secede, for 

 passive resistance is not a crime. No one else is thereby pre- 

 vented from giving his or her support. After voluntary rep- 

 resentation ceases, taxation sliould also cease. 



♦Confucius, when asked if there was one word which contained the whole duty of 

 man, thinking a moment, said, "The nearest word 1 can think of is Keciprocity." 



