The essentials of the free state were defined in America as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But one cannot pursue happiness; one must pursue something else that will give happiness; and the only happiness that exists is derived from the free creative life. A state is free, then, in proportion to the amount of free life it permits, just as it is a slave-state in proportion to the amount of death or imaginative restraint for which it is organized. Just as reason is the circumference of energy, so necessity is the circumference of freedom: noblesse oblige. Penal codes and repressive laws cannot produce order: they are conceived as a desperate defense against chaos: order is not a matter of morality but of morale. Compulsion and obedience follow the anarchic will of tyranny: our imaginations, being one in God, achieve, when unrestricted, a spontaneous co-operation. That is part of what Blake means when he says that empire follows art and not art empire.