ABSTRACT
Enthusiasm for freedom is a comparatively modern emotion. Until the second half of the nineteenth century, order, with which freedom was thought to conflict, was regarded as a superior aspiration. Then in the years which separated the American and Soviet Revolutions, the idea of democracies as unions of free men and women was accepted with an accelerating enthusiasm which left the politicians, who spoke so eloquently of freedom, no time to pause and think what freedom was.
