Word: simplest
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...William Dean Howell read from some of his published essays yesterday afternoon in the Fogg Lecture Room, his subject being "Liberty and Equality." He said in part: Liberty is not in itself a good; it is only a means for obtaining good. In its noblest, simplest terms liberty is self-sacrifice. This self-sacrifice begins with the first step in civilization and is the end of the savage's self-assertion. The earliest use that a citizen of a liberated state makes of his freedom is to give up some part of it for the common good. But the poor...