Excerpt from American Thumb-Prints: Mettle of Our Men and WomenOf local phases of the American spirit, none has incited more discussion than that developed in Kansas. The notion that the citizens of the State are somewhat phrenetic in experimental meliorism, that they more than others fall into abnormal sympathies and are led by aberrations of the crowd - intoxications the mind receives in a congregation of men pitched to an emotional key - this notion long ago startled peoples more phlegmatic and less prone to social vagaries.Closer consideration shows the Kansas populace distinctly simple in mental habit and independent in judgment.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 original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.