Living state

« Freedom, rather, was a physical state in human brains and bodies (consequently also in the body politic): the unpredictable OSCILLATION in a human being that correspond to God’s breath and over aeons maintained a ‘nervousness’ in humans which meant strenght. This quality was just as important for the constitution of COURAGE as for the POWERS OF DISCERNMENT, as for DEVOTION TO A CAUSE, as for SELF-CONFIDENCE. »