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Excerpt from Natural Salvation: The Message of Science, Outlining the First Principles of Immortal Life on the EarthWe do not suppose that the unicell. Of the Silurian beach foresaw its apotheosis in the brain neuron of a Webster, a Washington, or a Lincoln. The cell but chose to do what felt best for itself, or it may even have been coerced to what it did by the merest accident of its environment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes h...

Excerpt from A Busy Year at the Old Squire'sCousin Addison drove to the village with horse and pung to fetch him, and the pung, I remember, was filled with the master's belongings, including his school melodeon, books and seven large wall maps for teach ing geography. For Master Pierson brought a com plete outfit, even to the stack of school song-books which later were piled on the top of the melodeon that stood in front of the teacher's desk ...

Excerpt from The Knockabout Club in the Tropics: The Adventures of a Party of Young Men in New Mexico, Mexico, and Central AmericaLater, the Steamship College Association attempted it on a grander scale. The present Knockabout Club has been acting on the same idea now for two seasons past, as recorded in the two preceding volumes of this series of travels.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic bo...

Excerpt from The Young Moose-Hunters: A Backwood's StoryAmerica, meaning the United States, is a great country for self made men, so called. Our people rather dote on that sort of man. It is a nice topic to fire the juvenile mind with, - this being a self made man. When the average poor boy comes to try for it, he is apt to find it a stern task.To fight his way against everything, even hunger itself, is doubt less an indication of pluck, yet i...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Excerpt from A Great Year of Our Lives: At the Old Squire'sThe day they to-re the old house down I really felt quite sad. It does not seem like the same place there now, and memory runs back somewhat regretfully, as I pass to those Old eventful winter terms under Master Joel Pierson, Master Cummings, Master French and young Thomas Jefferson Cobb who was drowned in the Kennebec. Excellent teachers they were, possibly there are as good instructo...

Excerpt from On the Amazons, or the Cruise of the Rambler: As Recorded by WashOur own fault, very likely, but St. Helena disappointed us not a little, either because we have come to doubt the intrinsic grandeur of Napoleon's career, or from the grim, volcanic aspect of the islet.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 impo...

Excerpt from Left on Labrador, or the Cruise of the Schooner-Yacht Curlew: As Recorded by WashOn the 7th of July they made Cape Resolution on the north side of the entrance of Hudson Straits. Thenceforward, till their escape from that icy passage in August, their voyage was one continued series of startling adventures amid some of the grandest and most terrible scenery the earth affords.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of ...

Excerpt from Long Life, Vol. 2: The Occasional Review of an Investigation of the Intimate Causes of Old Age and Organic Death, With a Design to Their Alleviation and RemovalLong life is the record and exponent of a special line of research, not a literary venture for gain. It follows the progress and fortunes of laboratory work, and for that reason no set dates of issue are guaranteed. It will be printed whenever sufficient matter of interest ...

Excerpt from When Life Was Young, at the Old Farm in MaineTo the northeast, north and west, the land rises in long, picturesque ridges and mountains of medium altitude, and still beyond and above these, in the west and northwest, loom Mt. Washington, Madison, Kear sarge and other White Mountain peaks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a r...

Excerpt from Lynx-Hunting, Vol. 4: From Notes by the Author of "Camping Out"It was half-past seven o'clock, the morning of the 9th of January, 1871. We were a "merry company, " albeit our noses, ears, and toes were a little frosty. We had just been set down at the end of the road, far up in Somerset County (Maine), bag and baggage, and the horse-sled which had taken us up from the "settlement" five miles below was now just disappearing among t...

Excerpt from Off to the Geysers: Or the Young Yachters in Iceland, as Recorded by "Wade"During this time we read Heat, a Mode of Motion, and Fragments Of Science, by Tyn dall, The Descent of Man, and Origin of Species, by Darwin, Prof. Huxley's Lay Ser mons and also the first four volumes Of Ban croft's History of the United States These, besides papers, magazines, &c., I call your attention to these studies, only to illustrate to you our mode...

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