Author: Robert Kemp Philp

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-23

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780483726413

Excerpt from The History of Progress in Great Britain While thus indicating our sense of the importance of these subjects, let us not be supposed to be unaware how little we ourselves have been able to do in the following pages, for their elucidation or enforcement. If we have taken up a large portion of our available space in dealing with them, we cannot but feel, as we have all along painfully felt, that our entire two volumes would have been inadequate for their due development. Some day, so grand a subj ect will, we doubt not, meet with its own historian, who shall be worthy of it. Meantime, we com mend our own brief and imperfect notices to the reader's indulgence, and shall only be too happy if they at all obtain his sympathy. What ever their faults, they at least have been written by one who ardently desires to see his country, and all mankind, in the fullest possible enjoyment of all that is comprised in the noble words Civil and Reli gions Liberty, because he believes that those words, rightly understood and determinedly acted ou, will not only tend to elevate the indi vidual nature of man, but bring the entire human family into more harmonious relations, and raise it to an altogether higher level of domestic life. 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.