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Show LIBERTY HAS ITS BEGINNING WAY BACK IN MORNING OF TIME This poor checkered world was very young when, in spite of a base autocracy and a terrible despotism, there began to grow the fine flowers of human freedom, the rights of man, the duty of brotherhood and neighborliness. The seed was sown in ancient Egypt and Babylon. But alas, it fell on stony ground and soon died out. . Later there were some tribes in. the wilderness of southern Palestine among whom it took root and grew under the leadership of Abraham and Jacob. Here freedom flourished for a time. They had all things in ccfmmon, equal rights and responsibilities; the chief was the servant. When liberty was threatened or endangered each man arose to put down the despots. The rights of man and the duties of man to man were expressed in definite laws and all the later forms of democracy have been largely an unfolding of what was then and there set forth. As it was with man then so should it be with nations. When despotic and war-making powers arise every nation should join in a movement to put them down. That is the way to peace. |
