"No man or woman is accountable to others for any conduct by which others are not injured or damaged."*
* D. in the LEADER, 1850, who, as a correspondent, first
expressed this aphorism thus.
III.
Social freedom consists in being subject to just rule and to none other.
IV.
Service and endurance are the chief personal duties of man.
V.
Secularism holds it to be the duty of every man to reserve a portion of his means and energies for the public service, and so to cultivate and cherish his powers, mental and physical, as to have them ever ready to perform service, as efficient as possible, to the well-being of humanity. No weakness, no passion, no wavering, should be found among those who are battling for the cause of human welfare, which such errors may fatally injure. Self-control, self-culture, self-sacrifice, are all essential to those who would serve that cause, and would not bring discredit upon their comrades in that service.*
* Mr. L. H. Holdreth, Religion of Duty.
VI.