...breasts." These were Channing's inalienable rights, the liberties imperative to human development. "The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives...enlargement to a people's energy, intellect and virtues," which sets "man's powers at large, exciting, quickening them."32 Property rights, reason of state,...

...Representative Men. A great national literature is allied to the ideal of freedom, political freedom, but "The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives...enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues." A national literature is far more than the work or a mere individual, for it expresses the mind of...