Excerpt from The Quarterly of the Texas Historical Quarterly, Vol. 1: July, 1897, to April, 1898Another prolific source is to be found in the immense growth of the objects of government, in the increase Of its Officers, its courts, its asylums, in its State frontier protection, its penitentiaries, its high schools of all grades, its system of new education in common schools, and in numerous other governmental affairs, whose opera tions and particular modes of proceedings, with their results, are but partially and generally indefinitely known now by the mass of people, an intelligible explanation Of which would afford much data for history of the present.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.