liberty

learn not only to resort to grace but to resort to it in relation to the use of grace.

It is in fact Christian love that discovers and knows that the neighbor exists and, what is the same thing, that everyone is the neighbor. If it were not a duty to love, the concept “neighbor” only then is the selfishness in preferential love rooted out and the equality of the eternal preserved.

if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. in the true handling of knowledge men ought not to fall either on the one side into the vein of Velleius the Epicurean, nor, on the other side, into Socrates, his ironical doubting of all things; but to propound things sincerely with more or less asseveration, as they stand in a man’s own judgment proved more or less.

Just as that freedom-loving nation of North America has invented the most cruel punishment, silence, so a liberal and open-minded age has invented the most illiberal chicaneries-torchlight processions at night, acclamation three times a day, a triple hip-hip-hurrah for the great ones, and similar lesser chicaneries for humble folk. The principle of sociality is precisely illiberal.