Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Child's Story of the Greatest Century
These are some of the things we owe to the nineteenth century. They are not the whole of them. It has been a century crowded with marvels, full of great events and won derful discoveries. It has had its triumphs of war and its greater triumphs of peace its great warriors and its greater statesmen; its great doers and its greater thinkers. The past centuries were centuries of action more than of thought; this has been a century alike of thought and of action. Man's hands have been busy, but his brain has been busier, and the triumphs of the nineteenth century are the triumphs of the mind.
I hope the readers of this little book understand what I have just said. If any part of it is not clear to them they must. Read on to the end to learn what it all means. This book is the story of the lives and acts of the people now liv ing on the earth and of their fathers and grand fathers. It should be of interest to all of us on that account. The story of the nineteenth century is a wonderful one in every way. There is nothing else so wonderful in the history of the world. None of the tales of adventure you may have read are of more interest than the facts of this great century, and I am sure-you will agree with me when you have read this book through.
That is all I have to say here. One cannot say every thing in a preface. And none of you, when you are invited to a good dinner, care much to be told what is on the table. You would rather find out for yourselves. So with these few words I throw open the doors of the dining hall, and let you in to the feast of good things which has been prepared for you.
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