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Show CHAPTER IV LIBERTY AND THE INDIVIDUAl The basis for the whole the philosophical outlook of E1bert individuQ,I, his origincJ gottdness end Duncan Thomes .is God-given freedom. Thomas begins: hIs with the individual Md he ends with him. In the keynote spefl¢h by ThomQS to the Utah Democratic Convention in 1950 he Ictd: To the whole world we soy'.while we must be zeclous liberty, we must nevet be .Ifi,h of liberty •• f we auume that the fruits of Uberty are for the few, we deltt_y the promise of liberty itself. T'he ,,$Of principle of freedom corrles wIth It the concept of the dig nity of the humcm soul. liberty end the worth on,d clip tty in our for vIgilance of the individual go hand in hand. God's grem.t g·ift to manfdfta. 1 The individual is was orfginoHy good. Thomas, that great Am.ericonis In another sk1tement WQS based 1 on his beH$f that in very deed en Is Jefferson, soid that this It is also Thomas ". Jefferson" Thomas soia th. men $alt Lake C.fty, Utah, are in his book pofitieat religion. on 80th tt 2 Jefferson's faith in man _entia,Uy good by nature, plus July 1!9, the not'ion that 1950. 2 Jefferson's 'aith in the FOdness of mM, in his right to freedom of thought and actions, and In his abiUty to work out fer hi-mself a solution of all the social and political problems which hi. environment presented was unshakable,,, This was his politlcol religion. Thomes Jefferson, World Citizen, !e. 75 |
