With the world in the throes of a master struggle for liberty, the thinker is inevitably led to ponder the meaning of freedom. From what oppression does the world seek liberation? What constitutes true deliverance? What is the inevitable outcome of the problem now in course of solution?
Working from the basis of Christian Science teaching, and accepting all causation as purely mental, we are at once lifted above the thraldom of materiality into the comparative freedom of the thought realm, from which vantage ground we may begin to comprehend in a measure the intimate interrelation between the varying phases of human activity. The reaction of human thought upon earthly things unfolds before us, and we recognize innumerable signs of the hitherto unguessed interdependence of these things. That all things are manifested thought is quite generally conceded. That the betterment of things and of their conditions may be accomplished through the adjustment and purification of the formative thought, and only by such means, is not so readily seen or accepted, for to the average person things are so tangible and so settled that it seems absurd that their routine can be interrupted or ever so slightly reversed by anything so intangible as thought.
Most people at times drop into the subtle delusion of fatalism, —the resigned acceptance of the established order, the endurance of irksome burdens, the approach of inescapable woes,—to which we yield merely by reason of careless habits of thought, apathetic failure to recognize "the signs of the times," whether such be written in the individual consciousness or graven on the world-wide scrolls of the nations.
