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Excerpt from America: An Encyclopaedia of Its History and Biography, Arranged in Chronological Paragraphs, With Full Accounts of Prehistoric America and the Indians, and Notes on Contemporaneous History, Containing a Complete Record of Explorations, ConquestsThe present wide-spread interest in the study of American history will effect two results. It will, for one thing, push out very much reading of a low, useless, and pernicious kind. The enkindled desire to understand the sufferings and achieve ments in the record of the New World, or to live again in imagination the scenes which have been enacted upon the soil we tread, will consume the intellectual heed lessness which is satisfied with the thin and sensational reading which falls in its way. One who has acquired a passion for investigating journeys, inventions, cus toms, political enterprises and movements, and who finds the hours all too scanty for the purpose, is not likely to employ himself in reading that which wastes the time, enfeebles the mind, and blights the heart.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.