Liberty Bell/becoming A Symbol 1847-1865

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    “When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
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    “If we define a sign as an exact reference, it must include symbol because a symbol is an exact reference too. The difference seems to be that a sign is an exact reference to something definite and a symbol an exact reference to something indefinite.”
    —William York Tindall (1903–1981)