But you must read also about the stars--and about the big spaces--silent--not one single little sound for many, many million years.

To be free you must grow as big as that--inside of your head, inside of your soul.

It is not enough to be free of a czar, a kaiser or a sweatshop boss.

What will you do when they are gone?
My fine people, how will you run the world?
You are deaf and blind, you must be free to open your own ears and eyes, to look into the books and see what is there--great thoughts and feelings, great ideas! And when you have seen, then you must think--you must think it all out every time! That is freedom!'" He stopped abruptly.

Again on his dark features came a huge and winning smile, and with an apologetic shrug, "But I talk too much of my books," he said.