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The present wide-spread interest in the study of American history will effect ttwo 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.
The study of American history will also greatly increase the accurate knowl edge of the circumstances attending the formation of our institutions, and by so doing, will extend and intensify the spirit of our life through a great circle. If we wish to understand the movement of an enterprise, we must note its condition at two or more points in its career. It is difficult for the ablest mind, when confining its view to the present moment, to trace in the hurry and confusion and endless details, the complete significance of the work which is being done, and to judge whither it all tends. Nor can we look into the history of institutions with which we are closely associated, without a quickened pulse, a greater courage, and a truer patience. The passing accidents, and the abiding elements of enterprises and reforms, alone stand forth in this view.
This volume is intended to serve as an instrumentality along the above hues of usefulness. Several principles have controlled its preparation.
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