Our era witnesses many cases where our own liberty

contradicts with others’. Here is an example to show this delicate issue.

An old lady was walking down the middle of a street in Petrograd

to the great confusion of the traffic and with small peril to herself. 【M1】__________

This was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place for 【M2】__________

pedestrians, but she replied: “I’m going to walk where I like. We’ve got

liberty now.” It did not occur to the lady that if liberty entitled the

pedestrian to walk down on the middle of the road, then the end of such 【M3】__________

liberty would be universalchaos. Everybody would be getting in

everybody else’s way and nobody would get nowhere. Individual liberty 【M4】__________

would have become social anarchy.

There is a danger of the world getting liberty-drunk in these days

like the old lady, and it is just as well to remind ourselves of which the 【M5】__________

rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all

may be reserved, the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the 【M6】__________

policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road

and puts out his hand, he is the symbol not of tyranny, or of liberty. 【M7】__________

You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry, and seeing your car

pulling up by this insolence of office, feel that your liberty has been 【M8】__________

outraged. How dare this fellow interfere with your free use of the public

highway? Then, if you are a reasonable person, you will reflect that

when he did not interfere with you, he would interfere with no one, and 【M9】__________

the result would be that Piccadilly Circus would be the maelstrom that 【M10】_________

you would never cross at all.

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