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Artefacts An anthology of Prose and Poetry

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எழுத்தாளர் :Department Of English Periyar E.V.R. College.
பதிப்பகம் :பாவை பப்ளிகேஷன்ஸ்
Publisher :Paavai Publications
புத்தக வகை :மாணவருக்காக
பக்கங்கள் :158
பதிப்பு :1
Published on :2008
ISBN :9788177354775
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A STOUT old lady was walking with her basket down the middle of a street in petrograd to the great confusion of the traffic and with no small peril to herself. It was pointed out to her that the pavement was the place of foot-passengers, but she replied: ' I ' m going to walk where I like. We've got liberty not. ' It did not occur to the dear old lady that if liberty entitled the foot-passenger to walk down the middle of the road it also entitled the cabdriver to drive on the pavement, and that the end of such liberty would be universal chaos. Everybody would be getting in everybody else's way and nobody would get anywhere. Individual liberty would have become social anarchy. There is a danger of the world getting liberty drunk in these days like the old lady with the basket, and it is just as well to remind ourselves of what the rule of the road means. It means that in order that the liberties of all may be preserved the liberties of everybody must be curtailed. When the policeman, say, at Piccadilly Circus steps into the middle of the road and puts out his hand, he is a symbol not of tyranny, but of liberty. You may not think so. You may, being in a hurry and seeing your motor-car pulled up by this insolence of office, feel that your liberty has been 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 if he did not, incidentally, interfere with you he would interfere with no one, and the result would be that Piccadilly Circus would be a maelstrom that you would never cross at all. You have submitted to curtailment of private liberty in order that you submitted to curtailment of private liberty in order that you submitted to curtailment of private liberty in order that you may enjoy a social order which makes your liberty a reality.