ABSTRACT

All men have stood for freedom ... and those of the richer sort of you that see it are ashamed and afraid to own it, because it comes clothed in a clownish garment .... Freedom is the man that will turn the world upside down, therefore no wonder he hath enemies .... True freedom lies in the community in spirit and community in the earthly treasury, and this is Christ the true manchild spread abroad in the creation, restoring all things unto himself. (Gerrard Winstanley, 1649)