The Gavelyte, December 1907

;2()1 and at IPngth gave to the world the essence of a fullt>r truth than had yet daw,wd upon tht:> mind of man. 1'he meRsage of the Anglo-~axon race is individual liberty. With the rise of the Anglo-Saxon racP, tht-•re dawned upon the thinking "orld the rational idea of the libert.y and sovf'reign right of the iudiridual, an idea which even the gigantic powers of the southn11. mind had not yet grasped. The principle of individual liberty is progrPs ivP. It insures growth, bri11gs the abilities of man into action, and develop:a; character. It quickens his faculties, opens his mind, deepen, his thought, broad,>n::, his kno,vlerlgP. increases his power, Jpvelops confid,..ncP, initi:itive ability and indt->pt:>nderwe. It is thP greatest underlying prineiple of hnma~: progre~s. l• 1 11r thi~ great principle the Ang 1 o-Saxon race fough .t for a thousand yt:>ars, not with a sudclen burst of pasdinnate anger and veng eanre against a power aln·ady c1ushing it to the Parth, su1..:h as we see in the French Revo– lution, but with a devotion comparable only to the love of the Hebrew for his God, or to the longing of the Greek for truth and beauty; he fought wit.h a vigilancP, watching fo1 the very appearance of opµres~ion, eager and quick, both to rPsent any attack of de::spotism and t11 take advantage of its ""very weakneRS. 80, through CPnturiP-s, the ..\nglo-, ... ,uon ha, bet>n strug– gling on, winning a victory here, wresting a right from jealous kings there, always onward, always upward, keeping ever in view the sought-for goal, individual liberty, and the glorious prospect to which individual liberty, in the imagination of the most inspired seers of the race, is but the gateway. King .John, (;harle 1st, and .James 2nd sought to withstand the current dPPp and strong, and were ruthles ly pushed asidf>, while the Anglo-, axon race and th<:l principle for whieh they contended went on and on, until today the English-speaking peoples are the freest under the sun. When our fathers crossed the st-a::;, they forgot nothing of this principle. ay. those who c,Hllt' herP, were thmw who could not find evf'n in liberty-loving England, the frrPdorn which they i-'onght. And in the depths of till· foreLt primeval, on the sideR of rugged mountains. and on open plains, populated only by sav_ ages, free as thP birds of the air, far from the reign of kings and lords, the Anglo-, axon's lovP fo1 individnal liberty Pxpandecl rnorP and more, until in ,lne time the namP of (;eorge 3rd. was added to the list of those who had to lit> taught the mighty, irre~istiulP power of the new principle. In wild Amer– ica, frpe from Llw tra,1itionR of F.nropP anrl Asia, it. '(\'HS l,nt natural that. in