Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, Gilt title on spine, top edge gilt, 211 pages. The book explores the concept of freedom, its meaning, and its significance in human life. Palmer examines the different philosophical and ethical theories surrounding freedom and its limitations, including determinism and the role of the state in regulating individual freedom. He also discusses the relationship between freedom and morality, and the importance of individual responsibility in the exercise of freedom. The text results from a course of lectures delivered in 1909 before the Lowell Institute of Boston. Delivered without notes, they were carefully reported and subsequently much revised. Clean copy.