Exploring the universe, man discovers more and more of its laws, and, with each new law discovered, his freedom increases. If this sounds complex, that is only because we are thinking of the laws of the universe--God's laws--as though they were like the laws that man makes. Man's laws constrain us only when they are enacted, so that we may feel each new law as a new interference. But when a scientist announces a law …showed first 75 words of 199 total…

…showed last 75 words of 199 total…he knows what they are, he can learn how to cooperate with them and by so cooperating increase his own freedom within them. His freedom can be only within them, never from them. By discovering the laws of flight, man was able to harmonize himself with them more perfectly and so gained the freedom of the upper air. The utmost freedom for man lies in cooperation, obedience, and harmony with the universe and its laws.