"I am a fanatic lover of liberty, considering it the unique condition in which intelligence, dignity, and human happiness may develop and grow; not the purely formal liberty conceded, measured out, and regulated by the state, an eternal lie which in reality represents nothing more than the privilege of some founded on the slavery of the rest; not the individualistic, egotistic, shabby and fictitious liberty extolled by the school of J.J. Rousseau and the other schools of bourgeois liberalism, which gives us the would-be rights of all men as embodied in a State that limits the rights of each -- an idea which leads inevitably to the reduction Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: 71 by PHILIP SIDNEY PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 20. AL-'ALIM by EDWIN ARNOLD PSALM 137 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE SUCH STUFF AS DREAMS ARE MADE ON by BERTON BRALEY LINES COMPOSED IN A WOOD ON A WINDY DAY by ANNE BRONTE |