History of the Minnesota Valley

Excerpt from History of the Minnesota Valley Including the Explorers and Pioneers of Minnesota And History of the Sioux Massacre. We live not alone in the present but also in. The past and future. We can never look out thoughtfully at our own immediate surroundings but a course of reasoning will start up leading us to inquire into the causes that produced the development around us and at the same time we are led to conjecture the results to follow causes now in operation. We are thus linked indissolubly with the past and the future.. If then the past is not simply a stepping-stone to the future but a part of our very selves we can not afford to ignore or separate it from ourselves as a member might be lopped off from our bodies; for though the body thus maimed might perform many and per haps most of its functions still it could never again be called complete.. 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.