THERE is a something in the heart of mankind which ever rebels against limitation. There is nothing one so loves to do as to leap over or trample down barriers, to break laws of limitation. Such asserted laws are an excuse for the weak, but a challenge to the strong. Freedom has ever been man's highest aspiration, liberty the most potent watchword of history. The instinct which has made men rise and keep on rising throughout history, is the instinct to break laws which have been wrongly imposed upon mankind.
That which sends the discoverer running through the streets crying "Eureka," is the joy of having learned how to break the limitation of some supposed law. Poetic license is a reward granted to genius, permitting it to break laws imposed upon and governing more prosaic minds. The inspired composer knows no keener thrill of pleasure than to soar in masterful power and liberty above that which has theretofore been law in his art. The trained athlete disregards the law which limits his weaker brother, and every man prizes the ability to discard that which is law to the less powerful or less experienced. The instant a boundary is set, the thought looks beyond it, and every such boundary is an incentive to overleap it. An oppressive law has often been the spark which has kindled the conflagration that has burned away for a people the bonds which held them down and the barriers which held them back.
It has been said that laws are made to be broken. This is true of laws that are man-made, for manufactured laws betray their makers' lack of wisdom, and reveal the limitations of themselves and of their times; but it is not true of that law which exists by virtue of divine Principle. The former, the lower, are assertions of limitation. The latter, the higher, is a declaration of freedom, of the truth that makes free. The lower says, "You cannot;" the higher says, "You can." All laws of limitation are broken by a higher understanding of the truth. The understanding of ultimate reality, of Principle, does away with all man-made laws based upon anything less than Principle.
