thought--the Law of Individuality--the Law recognized and expressed by
Confucius and Jesus in negative and positive forms of the "golden rule";
"Do not unto others what ye would not they should do unto you."

Interference with the freedom of the individual is "bad"--that is, _it
invariably brings pain_ to the one who interferes, in thought or deed.
Listen to this:

"You cannot know anything of the sources or causes of the crisis you are
judging, for no one who knows will tell you, and you would not know if
you were told. The depths of elemental immortality, of self-deceit and
revenge, lie in our eagerness to judge one another, and to force one
another under the yoke of our judgments. When there is the faith of the
Son of man in the world, life will be left to make its own judgments.
The only judgment we have a right to make upon one another is the free
and truthful living of our own lives." George D. Herron.

This forcing of others, in mind or action, under the yoke of _our_
judgment is the only possible way we can break a _real_ Law. To be
_ourselves_ and to leave others free is to "_be good_." Dancing will
come and go, and come again; so will fashions of all kinds;
conventionalities and creeds; but this Law remains an eternal chalk line
to be toed. And eternal torments await him who does not toe it.

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Take the case of a man who desires to "run away" with another man's
wife. The one immutable Law of Individuality says _no man owns a wife_.
Instead of this being a problem with two men and one man's property as
factors, it is a case of _three individuals_ with god-given rights of