First Things RSS Feed - Roger Lundin https://www.firstthings.com/author/roger-lundin en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:12 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/roger-lundin 60 The Ultimately Liberal Condition https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/04/the-ultimately-liberal-condition https://www.firstthings.com/article/1995/04/the-ultimately-liberal-condition Sat, 01 Apr 1995 00:00:00 -0500 Things are in the saddle and ride mankind,” complained Ralph Waldo Emerson a century and a half ago. Like his disciple and Concord neighbor Henry David Thoreau, Emerson was vexed by the ironies of modern history. Technologies of the kind that had ushered in the industrial revolution were intended to free the men and women of the modern world⁠—from poverty, from bondage to servile labor, and from subjection to the vagaries of nature. But instead, Emerson, Thoreau, and others feared, technology had brought bondage of a new kind.

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