Show ORIGIN S OF THE CAP or la in former ages when old alj age was honorable caps became emblems of honor by degrees it became the badge of freedom tur none bunei were were deemed honorable who were not free and when a slave was made free he had a cap g given iven him which he be was permitted to wear in public the cap of liberty r was simple i in j its t form in in this the shape 0 of a sugar loaf broad at the b asa and endi ending nr in in a cone this prefigures pre figures that freed freedom uni stands on the broad bais of humanity and runs up to a pyramid |