Excerpt from The New American Cyclopļæ½dia, Vol. 1: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; An, Araguay In a work primarily intended for popular instruction and entertainment, it is obvious that lengthened and exhaustive treatises on the subjects which are brought forward in its pages would be inappropriate; no attempt, accordingly, has been made to furnish the masters of literature and science with new facts or principles in their peculiar branches of study; but, on the contrary, the Editors have aimed at such ...
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Excerpt from The New American Cyclopļæ½dia, Vol. 1: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge; An, Araguay In a work primarily intended for popular instruction and entertainment, it is obvious that lengthened and exhaustive treatises on the subjects which are brought forward in its pages would be inappropriate; no attempt, accordingly, has been made to furnish the masters of literature and science with new facts or principles in their peculiar branches of study; but, on the contrary, the Editors have aimed at such selections from the universal treasury of knowledge as will place the cultivators of one department of research in possession of the achievements of other departments, and especially to spread before the great mass of intelligent readers a faithful report of the opinions, systems, discoveries, events, actions, and characters that make up the history of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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