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      The cuneiform inscription that serves as our logo and as a design element in Liberty Fund books is the earliest-known written appearance of the word “freedom” (amagi), or “liberty.” It is taken from a clay document written about 2300 B.C. in the Sumerian city-state of Lagash.

      Foreword and editorial additions © 1985, 1987 by Liberty Fund, Inc.

      Facsimile title and part title pages from Volume I of Hume: Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, London 1777, courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

      This eBook edition published in 2013.

      eBook ISBNs:

       978-1-61487-098-2

       978-1-61487-216-0

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