The Panama Canal

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Excerpt from The Panama Canal: Its History, Its Political Aspects, and Financial DifficultiesA fervid imagination may depict M. De Lesseps, in the robes of the High Priest of Civilization, officiating at the marriage of oceans or at the divorcement of conti nents. But sober judgment will find in him the plain promoter, who never made a serious study of the scheme, who, encouraged by his own excessive vanity on one side and the fulsome ¿attery of his countrymen on the other, has allowed himself to be used as a tool in the hands of ambitious people, who, in plain words, bought his name in order that they might enrich themselves out of the savings of the artless and enthusiastic mass of his own countrymen.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.