Originally published in 1971. Judaism is the only religion which has a festival to celebrate freedom. But the freedom which the Children of Israel achieved with their departure from Egypt was liberty for the group. Liberty for the Individual is of comparatively recent growth, and its great champions, like Milton, Spinoza, Locke and John Stuart…
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