Though freedom is a quality of a single life, it is the work of generations. The bell is an object of sentiment for me, but it is in my life and on these pages only because it was also an object of sentiment for my grandfather, and that was only true because it had called farmers to work and children to school. Only an individual can be free, but only a community can make individuals. And yet for a community to do this, generation upon generation, its practices must be examined in light of the demands of freedom.
