1. The Era Of Good Feelings: An Era Of Idealism Or Realism?
... freedom of anarchy, but rather as the freedom of self-government, the freedom to obey consciously the laws of the universe as revealed by reason. He believed that the welfare of each individual should properly be regarded as an end in itself and that the world was progressing toward an ideal society in which reason would bind every law giver to make his laws in such a way ... that they could have sprung from the united will of an entire people, and to regard every subject, in so far as he wishes to be ... a citizen, on the basis of whether he has conformed to that will. In his treatise...
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