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Excerpt from Free America: Short Chapters Showing How Liberty Brings Prosperity This frank avowal of the practical purpose of this book will not please those who affect superi ority to the rest of mankind. Neither will it find favor with those who consider an appeal to self interest immoral, or at least low opportunism. But it is believed that Americans will welcome this attempt to set forth as simply as possible the causes which prevent them...

Excerpt from Even as You and I Ernest H. Crosby says Tolstoy thinks that most men lead only an animal life, and among these are always some who try to teach the meaning of life, without understanding it them selves. To understand life, we should begin our researches with that which alone we know with certainty, and that is the 'i within us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find m...

We must not put all our time into one crop unless we are rich enough to do our own insurance, for drought, or damp, or accident, ill-adapted seed, or general unfavorable conditions may make failures of one or more crops. But in variety and succession of crops is safety and profit. In order to succeed, crop must be made to follow crop, so that the ground is used to its full capacity. To leave it fallow for even a week is to invite weeds and to ...

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One hour a day spent in a garden ten yards long by seven wide will supply vegetables enough for a family of six. Bolton Hall wrote Three Acres and Liberty as a guide to city people who want to support a family with a small plot of land. He shows how a small tract of land near a town can be easily affordable and how a family can use the land in the most productive manner. Besides farming the author discusses limber for profit, transportation of...