Excerpt from Papers and Records, Vol. 15 Much more might be said of the pleasures in store for the one who is doing research work in our history. It is a wonderful chapter, the rush of energy which has found a country, settled it, and built up a structure on an economic basis in a little over a hundred years. We should be proud of the privilege of helping to preserve this record. Some one has said that History is past politics and Politics are pres ent History. In work of this kind it is not always necessary to give the viewpoint of the trained historian to make the results valuable. The dabbler in history, the one who writes an historical monograph, may be the means of digging up material that would otherwise be lost. 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.