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C. Delisle Burns
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“It has been assumed that freedom means the absence of limitation, which is correct but misleading; for it explains by a negative, and has therefore led to the absurdities of individualism. ... The value of freedom lies in the original impulse, and not in the absence of an obstacle.”
C. Delisle Burns (1879–1954) first seen 1925 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Philosophy of Labour (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1925), as quoted in The Meaning of Adult Education by Eduard C. Lindeman (1926), p. 64