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Excerpt from A Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank RoadsMy visit and its object having become known, I had frequent applications for information. One or two brief articles which, in reply, I published in the newspapers, only invited further questions and more numerous and minute enquiries. And at last, although conscious that I had accumulated but scanty material for a treatise on this subject, I found myself i...

Excerpt from Tracts of Republican Government and National Education: Addressed to the Inhabitants of the United States of AmericaBut if we cannot do all, let us at least do what we can. If we cannot find representatives who will support every measure which their electors desire to carry, let us take those who will support the essentials. And, above all, let us not quarrel about the non-essentials.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hu...

Excerpt from The Genius of Industry, or How Work Wins and Manhood GrowsFlying at our mast-head is this motto success A slow growth. The introduction to the problem we have before us relates itself to Time. This is a factor which to despise is to ruin our work in its very inception. He who would command enduring success must spend long, weary years either in careful preparation or arduous struggle. More men fail in life for lack of persistent e...

Excerpt from The Debatable Land Between This World and the Next: With Illustrative NarrationsThis change is from belief in the exceptional and the miraculous to a settled conviction that it does not enter into God's economy, as manifested in His works, to operate here except mediately.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of a...

Excerpt from Looking Back Across the War-GulfSuch considerations gave rise to the following paper: to be followed, perhaps, as occasion offers, by one or two more from the same source.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct...

Excerpt from The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation: And the Future of the African Race in the United StatesThe experiment we have been trying for more than three-quarters of a century was, whether, over social and industrial elements thus discordant, a republican government, asserting freedom in thought, in speech, in action, can be peacefully maintained.Grave doubts, gloomy apprehensions, touching the nation's Future, have clouded t...

Excerpt from The Conditions of Reconstruction: In a Letter From Robert Dale Owen to the Secretary of StateT he vacant seals once more filled That is desirable, no doubt - under certain conditions, and of all the preliminaries of peace, none are so important as these. The men who shall fill those vacant seats will hold in their hands the balance of legislative power.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Excerpt from Beyond the Breakers: A Story of the Present DayWell, said the other, city bills are good enough, but I'm going South to morrow, and you may as well give me a couple of those half-eagles.Heartily welcome, said Terence, paying him, and taking a receipt in te turn.If the two men who happened at the moment to be the only occupants of the bar-room except the stranger, had chanced to notice the eager, sidelong, persistent look which the...

Excerpt from Labor, Its History and Its Prospects: An Address Delivered Before the Young Men's Mercantile Association of CincinnatiWm the benefit. Of Gwilizutiou to b. Partial, uot uulnnul, it would bu ouly u bitter mockery uud cruel Mutiny - Duck.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten...

Excerpt from The Policy of Emancipation: In Three Letters, to the Secretary of War, the President of the United States, and the Secretary of the TreasuryMY political antecedents are known to you. Always a democrat, but never a pro-slavery democrat, Opposed, in principle and feeling, from my youth up, to human slavery, but believing, until recently, that, in the interests of liberty itself, it was the part of wisdom in the North to abstain from...

The Policy of Emancipation - Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1863.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly...

Excerpt from Second Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky, Made During the Years 1856 and 1857Sim - Since the manuscript of the First Report of the Geological Survey of Kentucky was submitted the Geological Survey has been continued, both in the field and office, with unremitting diligence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reprod...

Excerpt from Pocahontas: A Historical Drama, in Five Acts, With an Introductory Essay and NotesLet us allow something for the point of the apothegm, and in substance it is not without truth. His power who legislates for the fancy, is greater than his who enacts statutes for the conduct, as much greater as the warm impulses of the heart are stronger than the cold dictates of the understanding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundred...

Excerpt from Threading My Way: Twenty-Seven Years of AutobiographyPage found it. - The Labyrinth. - Social cost, to Rapp's disciples, of their wealth. - Economical condition of England half a century ago. - Her labor-saving machinery equal to twice the manual labor-power of the World. - What result from this - English laborer paid but half as much now as he received five hundred years ago. - The Great Problem looms up. - My father's solution o...

Excerpt from The Moral Physiology: A Treatise on Popular Questions, or Means Devised to Check PregnancyIT is a notorious fact, that the families of the mar ried often increase beyond what a regard for the young beings coming into existence, or the happiness of those who give them birth, would dictate, and philanthropists of first rate moral character, in differ ent parts of the world, have for years, been endeavor ing to obtain and disseminate...

Excerpt from The Moral Physiology: A Treatise on Popular Questions, or Means Devised to Check PregnancyIT is a notorious fact, that the families of the mar ried often increase beyond what a regard for the young beings coming into existence, or the happiness of those who give them birth, would dictate, and philanthropists of first rate moral character, in differ ent parts of the world, have for years, been endeavor ing to obtain and disseminate...

Excerpt from Popular Tracts, Vol. 1: Containing a Tale of Old EnglandThe wild piercing tones of the orator's voice sunk to an ex pression of softness and compassion, as, after an interval, he proceeded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to dig...

Excerpt from Popular Tracts, Vol. 1: Containing a Tale of Old EnglandThe wild piercing tones of the orator's voice sunk to an ex pression of softness and compassion, as, after an interval, he proceeded.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to dig...