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    A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found
    A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found
    A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found
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    A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found

    By Judah Freed

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    “A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found” is the fiction preamble of my nonfiction book, Making Global Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Paine wrote Common Sense to spark national revolution. I wrote Global Sense to spark world evolution.

    Thomas Paine began Common Sense with a parable about a remote community trying to govern itself. He used the fable to show how various forms of government arise, to argue against hereditary monarchy, and to help create in America the first modern republic. In updating his parable, I aim to show how governments change when people and societies lose a genuine connection with Spirit, by whatever name we prefer for the divine creative force. We face this peril now, so I’m retelling Paine’s cautionary tale for us today, and I’m adding an optimistic alternative ending to encourage the practical idealism of common global sense.

    Paine published Common Sense in Philadelphia on January 10, 1776. This ebook excerpt from my unpublished book was released on January 10, 2018.

    As an experiment, I’m offering this ebook to show a prospective publisher that there's public support for my project, so the more readers I can report, the better. Your support is profoundly appreciated!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHoku House
    Release dateJan 10, 2018
    ISBN9780972890595
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      A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found - Judah Freed

      A Note to Readers

      A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found is the fiction preamble from my nonfiction book, Making Global Sense, inspired by Thomas Paine’s Common Sense.

      Paine wrote Common Sense to spark national revolution. I wrote Global Sense to spark world evolution.

      Paine published Common Sense in Philadelphia on January 10, 1776. This ebook excerpt from my unpublished book was released on January 10, 2018.

      As an experiment, I’m offering this ebook excerpt to show a prospective publisher the public interest in my work, so the more readers I can report, the better. Therefore, if you have received this copy from a friend or family member, please go to your favorite online distributor to order your own free copy.

      Your support is profoundly appreciated!

      Thanks and blessings,

      Judah Freed

      Kauai, Hawaii

      A PARABLE OF LIBERTY

      LOST AND FOUND

      The preamble from Making Global Sense

      (An excerpt)

      Judah Freed

      Copyright © 2018 by Judah Freed

      A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found

      The preamble from Making Global Sense

      All Rights Reserved. Judah Freed asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work at all times and in all situations.

      ISBN: 978-0-9728905-9-5

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is entirely coincidental or is intended purely as a satire, parody or spoof of such persons and is not intended to communicate any true or factual information about that person.

      Published in the United States of America.

      Hoku House

      Kauai, Hawaii

      HokuHouse.com

      Governments arise either out of the people

      or over the people.

      – Thomas Paine

      Contents

      A Note to Readers

      Copyright

      A Parable of Liberty Lost and Found

      Paradise Found

      Democracy

      The Republic

      Balance of Powers

      Corruption

      Tyranny

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      Rebirth

      About the Author

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