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Excerpt from A Brief Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of Plank Roads Laying Out, Passion for straightness great error. Valiant effort of courage and science. Rule as to circuit that maybe profitably made to avoid a hill. Case in point. Increase by divergence small. Divergence from air-line perpendicular as well as horizontal. Northern and southern slopes. Trestle-bridges replacing embankments. How a little forethought may...

Excerpt from Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern Counties of Arkansas: Made During the Years 1859 and 1860 IN the First Volume of the Arkansas Report, I have already set forth the Objects and utility of a well-conducted Geological Survey. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an imp...

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 Treasury The three following letters were originally published, the first and last in the "New York Evening Post, " and that to the President in the "New York Daily Tribune." They obtained, through the periodical press In all parts of the country, a wide circulation. Discussing, as they do, the grea...

Excerpt from An Outline of the System of Education at New Lanark Some particulars regarding it, may, there fore, prove interesting, as exhibiting the results produced on the young mind, by combinations, many of them new, and almost all modified by the general principles on which the system is founded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book...

Excerpt from Seth Way a Romance of the New Harmony Community Thomas Say. But I have not dared to make his character so perfect nor his attainment so swift as were Say's. In fiction they would not be believed. As to the girl of the story, she is almost entirely drawn from a good and beautiful woman who lived in Harmony, and who undertook the headlong, unselfish enterprises which I have described. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishe...

Excerpt from The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation: And the Future of the African Race in the United States It is little more than three years since the first insurgent gun was fired against Fort Sumter: three years, as we reckon time, a generation, if we calculate by the stirring events and far-reaching upheavals that have been crowded into the eventful months. Things move fast in days like these. War changes the legal relations o...

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...

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Excerpt from Tracts of Republican Government and National Education: Addressed to the Inhabitants of the United States of America But 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 Publisher Forgotten Books publis...

Excerpt from Second Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky, Made During the Years 1856 and 1857 On stock-farms, where young animals are reared and sold, when they come to maturity, also on dairy-farms, where milk, butter, and cheese are prepared for market, there is necessarily a great drain upon the soil, principally in phosphate of lime or bone-earth. It has been estimated that there is removed one thousand pounds of this bone. Earth i...

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