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tive but an appeal to the law of equal freedom. Liberty, then, 

 is paramount to loyalty. Let us be loyal to liberty and every 

 other cause will prosper. 



T7ie Seal of Love. — Family instinct, through blood relation, 

 first spread into tribal affection. Then single-handed combat 

 brought association and the recognition of certain collective 

 rights. But these rights only applied to certain classes, and a 

 conflict of rights arose. The only solution of this is an equal- 

 ity of human rights, which is the greatest of rights. This 

 ushers in the unity of the race, and in place of parties and 

 sects, the brotherhood of man. 



When the headquarters of authority are vested in a theoc- 

 racy, there exists the supposed government of God over the 

 Devil, or good over evil, and so authority, as a cultus, ari- 

 ses. For while there are the 'good' and the 'bad,' one will be 

 sui^erior to and above the other. It will become exclusive, 

 patronizing, pharisaical, and dictatorial. One Avill form a 

 caste, the other will become an outcast. 



Now, in routing these pharisaical pretenders to authority and 

 pride, liberty holds a lamp for love, by which it is seen that 

 this personal superiority does not exist; good and bad being 

 interchangeable terms and derived from the same absolute 

 root. Do not doctors now practise medicine on the principle 

 that disease is an effort of nature to overcome an obstruction? 



Besides, the autliority of 'character' as a cult, must go. For 

 both free will and the divine will are subject to law. Sinq)ly 

 change places, and saints become sinners, and sinners become 

 saints. The authority therefore, of great men, as political and 

 tlieological bosses, is not greatly worshiped under co-operation. 



So liberty lights up, for love, every crook and cranny of the 

 universe. The highest love it is found is only consistent with 

 the truest democracy. The pale spiritual vanishes, to be 

 sure, with its dogmatism, but "gross, vile, dead, matter" is 

 81)ontaneonsly illuminated witli miraculous power; the ghosts 

 }>ecome living beings. Of course the sacred is lost, but no lon- 

 ger is the secular profane. The divine departs, but the human 

 is transfigured and glorified. By the universal unity of law, 

 this l)ec(m>es the other world; immortality a necessity, instead 

 of a gift, and God aiul the Devil are one! 



