Among the goods of life, we seek few things more ardently than personal freedom and the power to establish that freedom. Freedom and power: touchstones of longing and imagination. If only, for example, we were free of irritating acquaintances, or of demanding superiors, or of limited financial resources, or of nagging habits, or of imperfect health, or of a dead end occupation, or…

Or…of this, that, or the other thing. Insert whatever “if only” we prefer, we are convinced that its remova...

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