<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The deepest independence is semantic: the ability... > The deepest independence is semantic: the ability of a people to receive an inheritance while remaining free of another institution's account of what that inheritance means. **Source:** [[articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-extraction-markup-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/postimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]], [[working/authorship-west-reminder-links-repair-20260922/preimages/articles/war with empire/Authorship of the West|Authorship of the West]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The deepest independence is semantic: the ability of a people to receive an inheritance while remaining free of another institution's account of what that inheritance means.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-deepest-independence-semantic-account-inheritance-means ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->