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RV 99 (Chap. 1.) We do not. No one, sure, that lives in Error, is Free.

Do you like to live in Fear? Do you like to live in Sorrow? Do you like to live in Perturbation?

By no means.

No one, therefore, in a State of Fear, or Sorrow, or Perturbation, is free: but whoever is delivered from Sorrow, Fear, and Perturbation, by the same means is delivered likewise from Slavery. How shall we believe you, then, good Legislators, when you say; "We allow none to be educated but the Free?" For the Philosophers say; "We allow none to be free, but the Liberally-educated:" that is, God doth not allow it.

What, then, when any Person hath turned his Slave about before the Consul, hath he done nothing?

Yes, he hath.

What?

He hath turned his Slave about, before the Consul.

Nothing more?

Yes. He pays a Fine for him.

Well then: is not the Man, who hath gone through this Ceremony, rendered free?

No

No more than [he is rendered] exempt from Perturbation. Pray, have you, who are able to give this Freedom to others, no Master of your own? Are not you a Slave to Money? To a Girl? To