(1780)
Liberality—See [Generosity].
LIBERALITY IN RELIGION
Father Mathew was going among a large number of his temperance converts, signing the cross on their foreheads, when a man on his knees looked up and said, “Father, here am I, an Orangeman, kneeling to you, and you blessing me.” “God bless you, my dear, I didn’t care if you were a lemon-man,” said Father Mathew.
(1781)
Liberty—See [Freedom Chosen].
Liberty, A Spider’s Struggle for—See [Ingenuity].
LIBERTY, INDIVIDUAL
Throughout his life Milton, tho profoundly religious, held aloof from the strife of sects. In belief, he belonged to the extreme Puritans, called Separatists, Independents, Congregationalists, of which our Pilgrim Fathers are the great examples; but he refused to be bound by any creed or Church discipline:
“As ever in my great Task-Master’s eye.”