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Published: 2015-07-04

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781330722565

Excerpt from Homes for Thousands: In the Beautiful Republican Valley of Kansas; "Everybody Likes It;" Our conceptions of the unseen are nearly always at fault. We are apt to give too much play to fancy. The average Yankee is as speculative in theory as he is intensely realistic in practical things. His opinion of men and things he has never seen is generally an exaggeration. He can draw on imagination to a wonderful extent. But experience and sightseeing wear into his prejudices until, one by one, they are dissipated and the naked truth is before him for appreciation. Most persons go into a new country only to be disappointed. They have exalted ideas of everything in the new land of their hopes. It is their fair Utopia, and embodies every perfection of climate, soil, production, topography and society. It is the expression of their most extravagant hope and wish, the object of their enthusiasm and excusable selfishness. They come to the new country with high hopes and have not taken into account the manifold hardships and drawbacks of pioneering. Realization dispels many a fair vision of the pioneer. He drops down from his beautiful ideal world into the rough practical ways of bread-getting and home-building. 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.