LARGE PRINT EDITION More at LargePrintLiberty.com. Leonard E. Read discusses the importance of freedom as a foundation for finding the answers to the problems induced by central planning and "master minding." He suggests: "Freedom has come by accident, the result of desperation rather than a rational prognosis of better things to come." Read covers the influence of ideas and the human need for freedom as well as constructive methods for the advancement of those ideas.