Free

Here’s another simple, old word that people have had a hard time defining properly, as G.K. Chesterton explains in this statement about FREE LOVE:

It is common to meet nowadays men who talk of what they call “Free Love” as if it were something like Free Silver…some new and ingenious political scheme…
Free Love as been going on in every town and village since the beginning of the world; and the first fact that every man of the world knows about it is plain enough. It never does produce any of the wild purity and perfect freedom its friends attribute to it.

From The Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton

Free is another well traveled word, coming from the Old English frēo; akin to Old High German frī , Welsh rhydd, and tracing back to the Sanskrit word priya, meaning own, or dear.

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