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of-date customs must be welded into hard and fast chains of 

 co-operation, unit}' and charity. We must increase our free- 

 dom of commerce if we would aim at increasing the possibility 

 of keeping the largest possible population under conditions of 

 the greatest possible average comfort. This can only be done 

 by still further restricting personal liberty and by ensuring by 

 means of a wisely restricted franchise that the foolish are 

 controlled by the wise. For during the last century commerce 

 has come of age and must learn to make her bow, and is the 

 debutante at the dance of free trade, viz., Freedom of com- 

 mercial exchange and freedom of contract and freedom of 

 religion. The most important Trinity of freedom that 

 can grant true freedom of thought and action is the right of 

 each and every one of us to live how we like, when and where 

 we like, fenced, bounded and restricted only by such laws and 

 regulations as are necessary to maintain inviolable the just 

 liberties of others. For the only freedom nine out of ten of 

 us have is the right to decide whom we shall work for, and what 

 we shall work at, and when and how we shall work. 

 Fredom is the creation of such boundaries and limitations 

 by restricting laws to such only as are absolutely necessary 

 to prevent the liberty of one person or class of the community 

 interfering with the freedom of any other person or class. 



It does not extend so far as to allow us to interfere or 

 deny to others the full measure of freedom of action or the 

 full rights of honest competition, provided they do not in- 

 fringe upon our just rights and privileges. We must not forget 

 that nothing succeeds like success, and that he who by suc- 

 cess proves his superiority is entitled to all the privileges that 

 honest competition may confer upon him. It therefore appears 

 to me that one of the first aims of future evolution must be 

 to get a federation of nations to join together to settle inter- 

 national disputes by arbitration, and that the next must be to 

 try and populate the different countries with the people most 

 suited to develop them to the greatest advantage, and that 

 this can only be brought about by evolving a commercial 

 system of international barter of territory by purchase and 

 sale instead of by War; thirdly, that the main means of the 

 development of evolution in the future must be to encourage 

 the breeding under the most suitable conditions of those best 

 suited to create the highest possible qualities calculated to 



