Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Passages From the Letters of John Butler Yeats
Liberty is an English thought, and there it remains. It is not yet an American, F rench or German thought; for though an Englishman has not the idea or theory of liberty common in France and Amer ica, he has, Which they have not, the feeling in his blood and in his bones. An Englishman believes he has a right to do what he likes with himself, which includes his beliefs and whims, and with his proper ty, and property includes wife and children and serv ants and oxen and asses and the stranger within his gates.
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