A Nation's Life Is About As Long

On A Scale Personal Enough To Be Felt By All, But Big Enough To Be Symbolic, The Two Irreconcilable Faiths Of Our Time - Communism And Freedom - Came To Grips In The Persons Of Two Conscious And Resolute Men.

The Rub Is That The Pursuit Of Happiness, As An End In Itself, Tends Automatically, And Widely, To Be Replaced By The Pursuit Of Pleasure With A Consequent General Softening Of The Fibers Of Will, Intelligence, Spirit.

Experience Had Taught Me That Innocence Seldom Utters Outraged Shrikes. Guilt Does. Innocence Is A Mighty Shield, And The Man Or Woman Covered By It, Is Much More Likely To Answer Calmly: 'my Life Is Blameless. Look Into It, If You Like, For You Will Find Nothing.' That Is The Tone Of Innocence.

Freedom Is A Need Of The Soul, And Nothing Else. It Is In Striving Toward God That The Soul Strives Continually After A Condition Of Freedom. God Alone Is The Inciter And Guarantor Of Freedom. He Is The Only Guarantor. External Freedom Is Only An Aspect Of Interior Freedom. Political Freedom, As The Western World Has Known It, Is Only A Political Reading Of The Bible. Religion And Freedom Are Indivisible. Without Freedom The Soul Dies. Without The Soul There Is No Justification For Freedom. Necessity Is The Only Ultimate Justification Known To The Mind.

The Chief Fruit Of The First World War Was The Russian Revolution And The Rise Of Communism As A National Power.