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"The principle of freedom cannot require that he should be free not to be free. It is not freedom, to be allowed to alienate his Freedom."
John Stuart Mill . On Liberty

There is something about Mill' s sentence that conveys the promise, the excitement, and even the exhilaration of the Enlightenment.
Freedom is an imperative, a certainty about the nature of human beings and how they must inevitably develop if they are wise enough to understand themselves..