Welcome to Part 2 of this week's podcast.

I believe it was Bertram Russell. I'm going to get it wrong here.

One of those British thinkers said, history is written in three books.

The book of deeds, the book of arts, and the book of words.

And it's always fun to have a discussion with people as to which of those they think is most important.

And I don't know that you can have an answer to that and elevate one above the other.

So the book of deeds, the landing on Normandy, beaches, the valley forges.

These are deeds that men did. The book of arts, Michelangelo's David.

Never a greater sermon on the dignity of man was portrayed visually than Michelangelo's David.

It's in Florence. Thomas Jefferson's the book of words in the Declaration of Independence.

So when you start to weigh deeds and art and arts and words,

what have had the most impact? And you'll have different people.

I can say it would be fun. Some fun to have a discussion.

Take the ten greatest deeds in history, the ten greatest works of art.

And that would be music, Beethoven's Night Symphony, just whatever.

And the greatest words. Now maybe because I'm an English major and like to read a lot,

you know where I'm going to vote. I'm going to cast my vote that it is words that have had the greatest impact

and the greatest legacy. The idea is the minds, the deep things of the soul transmitted by written word down through the generations.

So Joseph did great deeds. Carthage was a deed. He gave his life.

But the greatest influence I think what he died for and what John Taylor is going to indicate in section 135

is that Joseph and Hiram died for words, the words they left us.

And he began section 31, 35 with that idea. We go right to verse 1.

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