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In one respect mankind are like the individual. As a child, unable to know what is really best for them, they must be governed. But as they increase in knowledge, so they become more capable of governing themselves; so at last is freedom their right, which none can deny or withhold except at his peril. This is the law of Providence, written in the revelation of history. Now, in Feudal times mankind were governed. Kings and liege-lords held in check their peoples, while Hildebrand on his Papal throne ruled kings with absolute sway. It was a social system, where each class of society looked not within itself for laws and guidance, but to a higher and less numerous, until finally the reins of power as they came up from below, all centered in the Pope's hands, who capped the despotic pyramid. But in the eleventh century knowledge began to settle down from the apexes of society, and [8/9] to spread out among and through the broad base--the common people. Awakened into life by its warmth, that base began to indicate by its throes and convulsions, that the despotic weights above were cramping and galling it; until at last came the rending and overturning of the Feudal system, in the assertion that man has the right of governing himself. As an abstract, indefinite dictum this was settled affirmatively in the Revolution of '76. That was work enough for one great convulsion to decide. But an important subsequent question, to which the first, if settled affirmatively, would inevitably give rise, was not determined. This subsequent question lies at the bottom of the present issue. What our fathers began, therefore, we must complete. We broke from the Feudal extreme, and were right in doing so; that is settled--that is what our fathers decided. Now, the question is, how far in our oscillation shall we sweep from that extreme. That is what we are to decide. How far shall men be allowed to govern themselves. For in every great plan to be determined upon, if there is one extreme to be avoided, there is its opposite equally to be avoided. And so in this, if the extreme from which we broke was that condition in which one man governed all at his own will, the opposite extreme to be avoided by a nation endeavoring to put the indefinite liberty it has gained into practice, is that condition in which every man governs himself, each at his own will. Thus tyranny of one man is at one end of the oscillation; anarchy of all men is at the other end.

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