Excerpt from The Growth of Freedom Like all abstractions, freedom is difficult to define, and though we may usually know it when we see it, our knowledge is often uncertain. Even the word has not exactly the same meaning as its supposed equivalents in other languages. Eleutheria, Libertas, Frei heit, and their derivatives suggest different shades of feeling. Our own word Liberty is commonly used as identical with Freedom, but it sounds less solid. 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.