Excerpt from Algeria: The Topography and History, Political, Social, and Natural of French Africa The regeneration of man is daguerreotyped in characters of light, but we are blind to God's photographic art the age of reason and the reign of love is rapped out by unearthly hands on our parlour tables, but we are deaf to the summons of the seventh heaven. To tunnel the Atlantic and electrify China were thought sober prose, and shares in a gas - company at J eddo would be at a premium to-morrow; but to irrigate the desert, set free the Poles, and make Europe Christian, is too much for our faith. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.