Excerpt from Scribner's Popular History of the United States, From the Earliest Discoveries of the Western, Hemisphere by the Northmen to the Present Time, Vol. 2

If, as is quite possible, there has been some impatience on the part of subscribers to this work to see the second volume, we have not permitted the suspicion of its existence to hurry us in the least. The writing of history is one of the things that is not necessarily well done, because it is done quickly. Rather the converse of that proposition is true, and our readers should thank us that we have not been tempted into haste.

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