The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government<br><br>All the institutions and civilizations of the past may be considered temporary erected in haste from the materials near est at hand not for permanence but to serve the present turn while the special task of the nation or age was being performed. The races and ages nearer the birth of mankind worked on rougher parts of the edifice that entered into the foundations; those grand races the Greek and the Roman furnished the noble outline which the nations Of modern Europe perfected while they supplied what was still lacking for use and adorn ment.<br><br>America was reserved designedly for so many ages to furnish a suitable and unencumbered location for the central halls and mightiest-pillars of the completed structure. Our fathers cleared the ground and laid the foundation deep down on the living rock that is to say on Human Rights. That they seldom failed to place stone pillar and column in just position the work as we find it proves and we have little to do but to clear away the rubbish beautify the grounds and put the whole to its proper use.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.