The Story of the Liberty Bell

The Story of the Liberty Bell
ISBN-10
1330325842
ISBN-13
9781330325841
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
128
Language
English
Published
2015-06-16
Publisher
Forgotten Books
Author
Wayne Whipple

Description

Excerpt from The Story of the Liberty Bell "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof," is the legend moulded around the Liberty Bell. This inscription is from the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus, as part of the directions given by Jehovah for the celebration of the year of jubilee, and the very next words to it in the Bible are: "It shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession." For Liberty is the "possession" of every man, woman and child. The Story of the Liberty Dell is the story of Liberty. It is a history of thrills and throbs and tears. If the ancient Hebrew slaves had not made that immortal dash for liberty when the Egyptians pursuing them were drowned in the Red Sea, there never would have been that tumult in the city, In the quaint old Quaker town, when the Liberty Bell rang in the "year of jubilee," and rang out the glad tidings of freedom "throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." When ancient people conquered their enemies they made captives and slaves of them. They had very little idea of personal rights and still less of religions liberty. They seemed to think that those who did not believe as they did ought to be put to death if they were strong enough to kill them-unless they cared to make slaves of them or hold them for ransom. The ancients understood the right of Might, but they knew nothing of the might of Right. Though the human race is counted to be six thousand years old, Liberty, as we know it, is but little more than one hundred years old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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