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in it that was positive: that it was merely a negative one: and that accordingly I defined
it "the absence of restraint": I do not believe I
then added "and constraint": that has been an addition
of your own. You mentioned it to me t'other day
with this addition. In the mean time I had discoverd
the defect: and had changed, in my papers, the word
restraint into coercion, as that which would include both
restraint and constraint. This >new term I then communicated to
you; and you have adopted it in preference to the other
two.
Whither you will say does all this lead? To this, that
you should find some means of exculpating me from a
charge of plagiarism. I may otherwise stand exposed The to. The Definition of Liberty is one of the
corner stones of my system: and one that I know not
how to do without. I must make use of it; and that
perhaps at no long time hence. When I do, my enemies
(of whom I shall not fail to have abundance) will be
objecting to me that what I have said is stolen from
a man who wrote in a newspaper. The disproof of that
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