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Excerpt from Socialism: A Critical AnalysisSoci'alism'ism the first place an indictment of any and all industrial systems based on private property and com petition. The indictment is urged hotly and with unsparing detail, in ponderous treatise and ¿eeting pamphlet, through party organs and on party platforms. Day after day and week after week vigorously edited journals keep up a running fire on every weak spot of capitalism. Night after night...

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

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Excerpt from The Railway Builders: A Chronicle of Overland HighwaysWhat can be more palpably absurd and ridiculous, ' the Quarterly Review had declared in 1825, than the prospect held out of loco motives travelling twice as fast as stage coaches! We should as soon expect the people of Woolwich to suffer themselves to be fired off upon one of Congreve's ricochet rockets as trust themselves to the mercy of such a machine, going at such a rate.' ...

Excerpt from General Economic History of the Dominion, 1867-1912Of momentous import for the Dominion's future was the geological basis, which has elsewhere been fully described.1 1 See The Physical Basis of Canada in this section.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-...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. 1Some time before his death, Sir Wilfrid Laurier placed in my hands all his papers, covering the period to the close of his term of office. After his death, Lady Laurier gave access to the later papers. These papers included all the documents of public interest which he had accumulated, with the exception of a few boxes of letters lost in the burning of the Parliament Buildings during ...

Excerpt from Federal FinanceWhat of the future? The first task of to-day is the efficient and unresting prosecution of the war to a successful end, and no other question. Howsoever important in itself, should be allowed to interfere with that endeavour. Yet, as experience so far has shown. The silver bullet is as effective as the lead one, and if the war drags on indefinitely. Financial strength and soundness will be not least among the determ...

Excerpt from Federal FinanceWhat of the future? The first task of to-day is the efficient and unresting prosecution of the war to a successful end, and no other question. Howsoever important in itself, should be allowed to interfere with that endeavour. Yet, as experience so far has shown. The silver bullet is as effective as the lead one, and if the war drags on indefinitely. Financial strength and soundness will be not least among the determ...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. 2Mr. Laurier had to hold the balance fairly between his own parliamentary followers and the men in the pro vincial administrations, between the old Liberal war horses and the eleventh-hour converts, between past service and future capacity, between debating skill and executive power, between province and province and between section and section, alloting Quebec its Eng lish-speaking Pr...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. 2Mr. Laurier's Home in Arthabaska Mr. Laurier's Law Ofiee in Arthabaska Their Golden Wedding Day.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 the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from The Life and Times of Sir Alexander Tilloch GaltThroughout the formative period of our national his tory, Galt played a part of lasting significance to the Canada and the Canadians of after days. The forcesthat shaped the life and destiny of the Canada of the days before Confederation, and the new Canada of the first years after, are nowhere more fully displayed than in his manifold interests and achievements. In presenting this s...

Excerpt from Life and Letters of Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Vol. 2Mr. Laurier's Home in Arthabaska Mr. Laurier's Law Ofiee in Arthabaska Their Golden Wedding Day.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 the work, preserving the or...

Excerpt from The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own TimesUbalde, who became a physician and died at Arthabaska in 1898 Charlemagne, a mer chant in St Lin and later member for the county at Ottawa, who lived until 1907, and Henri, the prothonotary at Arthabaska, who passed away in 1906. Carolus Laurier him self lived on in his little village home forty years after the birth of his eldest son, and his Wife lived nearly twenty yea...

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