ABC's ol r .. eedom LEONARD E. READ PREFACE "I am more and more impressed," notes Henry Hazlitt in Thinking as a Science, "with how little the individual could ac complish in any direction whatever if he had to depend entirely on his own unaided efforts .... He could not think at all (or only at the level of a chimpanzee) if he did not inherit from the society and civili zation in which he was horn the priceless gift of an already-created language. With out thi...