Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879, Vol. 3: The Story of His Life Told by His Children; 1841-1860
Afterall, the work has a formidable length - no one ismorc conscious of this than we who fashioned it. Can we hape that anybody, in this busy and superficial age, will read it consecu tively, and not merely consult it as a book of reference 1 We can say of it what Sylvester Judd did of his 'margaret, ' that it was never designed for railroads; it might, pol-adventure, suit a canal-boat; or, again, what Mr. Pepys said of William Penn's tract against the Trinity that it is a serious sort of book yet without adding, and not fit for everybody to read. Rather are we of opinion that no one can read it with ontprofit, foritisnot more thehistoryof a manthanofanage. It will at least serve as a corrective of that spurious patriotism which consists in concealing, or shutting our eyes on, the bar barous past of our country, as if contemplation and frank con tsasion of it were not the surest means of promoting the national evolution to a yet higher civilization. In short, those who study history not for amusement, but for its practical bear ing on conduct in the formation of principle, may well linger over these pages.
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