This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...be sent to any locality, the militia of any city was subject to call. Prizes were given by the government for efficiency in drill, target practice, and maneuvers, and a liberal allowance for every day spent in practice created a strong spirit of rivalry between various cities, all of which resulted in a large and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...be sent to any locality, the militia of any city was subject to call. Prizes were given by the government for efficiency in drill, target practice, and maneuvers, and a liberal allowance for every day spent in practice created a strong spirit of rivalry between various cities, all of which resulted in a large and efficient fighting force always ready, without any appearance of the country's maintaining a large standing army. The total number of men subject to call from the militia of the various cities alone approximated five millions. Thus it will be seen that this most powerful, prosperous and peaceful nation was at all times ready to cope with the most powerful combination of human forces that could be directed against it. It was a sad commentary on the human race as a unit. But it was only another illustration, and on a larger scale, of the unequal creation of men, and the dangers they were in from others of their own kind. CHAPTER XIII MINES AND MINING In the evolution of matter preparatory to the advent of man, forest after forest had grown to maturity only to be crushed down and compressed by the forces of Nature into layers upon layers of fuel for his future needs. Coal was an absolute necessity to the very existence of a large part, and especially to the most intelligent part, of the human race. But it was never intended by an all-wise Creator, that an element of such universal consumption should fall into the hands of a few individuals to be distributed by them to the public, and for which they could exact tribute to the end of time. But in that great territory of the United States so rich in all the raw materials needed for man's wants, and rich in her deposits of coal, through one cause or another the title to her great coal mines had fallen int...
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Very Good. 1907. First edition. Hardcover, 8vo. in red cloth with gilt spine title. 285pp. plus 4p. publisher list. Very good. Front board scuffed, light wear to corners and spine ends. Internally bright and unmarked.
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Very Good + No DJ. Printing Not Spec. n/a. 12mo = 7-9" 285pp. Maroon cloth covers are are bumped and worn on top/bottom of spine, edges and corners. Gilt lettering on spine. Written in the form of a narrative.