have lost would not have been more, as well as sweeter, than that
you have gained? But "it so forms my individuality to be free!"
Your individuality was given you by God, and in your race, and if
you have any to speak of, you will want no liberty.

13. In fine, the arguments for liberty may in general be summed in
a few very simple forms, as follows:

Misguiding is mischievous: therefore guiding is.

If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch: therefore,
nobody should lead anybody.

Lambs and fawns should be left free in the fields; much more bears
and wolves.

If a man's gun and shot are his own, he may fire in any direction
he pleases.

A fence across a road is inconvenient; much more one at the side
of it.

Babes should not be swaddled with their hands bound down to their
sides: therefore they should be thrown out to roll in the kennels
naked.

14. None of these arguments are good, and the practical issues of
them are worse. For there are certain eternal laws for human
conduct which are quite clearly discernible by human reason. So
far as these are discovered and obeyed, by whatever machinery or