Excerpt from Essay on the Necessity of Improving Our National Forces, Vol. 4 To develop and illustrate this change, to dispel the dangerous illusions which our success in the last war has spread through the people, to prove that much more powerful means may and probably will be directed against us on the next occasion, such is the object of the first part of this work. To prove that our present means of defence would be totally inadequate to resist such an attack; that they 1m periously require to be improved, organized and augmented, and that our liberties can run no dan ger from such improvements on a moderate but suf ficient scale, such is the object of the second. 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.