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From the Introduction of Chapter IV of the book PAN – GOD OF THE WOODS, by Lawrence R. Spencer

“The soul of man can never be enslaved, save by its own infirmities, nor freed save by its very strength and own resolve and constant vision and supreme endeavor!

You will be free? Then, courage, o my brother!  O let the soul stand in the open door of life and death and knowledge and desire and see the peaks of thought kindle with sunrise!”

— from “Herakles” by George Cabot Lodge  (c. 1873 – 1909),  American poet