Excerpt from The Titan From New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine had come a strange company, earnest, patient, determined, un schooled In even the primer of refinement, hungry for some thing the significance of which, when they had it, they could not even guess, anxious to be called great, determined so to be without ever knowing how. Here came the dreamy gentleman of the South, robbed of his patrimony; the hopeful student of Yale and Harvard and Princeton; the enfranchised miner of California and the Rockies, his bags Ofgold and silver in his hands. Here was already the bewil dered foreigner, an alien speech confounding him - the Hun, the Pole, the Swede, the German, the Russian - seeking his homely colonies, fearing his neighbor of another race. 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.