ABSTRACT
Few people will now deny that there are serious dangers on the path on which we are moving, that if we are not careful we may find ourselves saddled with an omnipotent state whose machinery so thoroughly controls the people and their opinions that even the retention of the forms of democracy would not alter its totalitarian character. There is little vigorous effort to meet these ideas in their own spiritual sphere, little deliberate effort to develop in opposition to them a true philosophy of freedom, and to make it once again a living and developing philosophy which will enlist the sympathy and support of the young and enthusiastic. The modern proposals for central economic planning raise again great issues, above all that of the relation between power and freedom, on which little thinking has been done during the past two or three generations, because during that period it seemed as if individual liberty were securely established for all time.
