This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...be obtained for making improvements for the common good, such as the building of a church, a town hall, a schoolhouse, and for the establishment of a library. Adjoining the village, the outlying tracts could be apportioned, by lot or otherwise, in size according to distance from the village centre. Some of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...be obtained for making improvements for the common good, such as the building of a church, a town hall, a schoolhouse, and for the establishment of a library. Adjoining the village, the outlying tracts could be apportioned, by lot or otherwise, in size according to distance from the village centre. Some of the advantages of settling in a village will be easy access to schools and public places, meetings, lectures, and the like, and society can be had at once. "I make the point that two important objects are to be gained by such a colony. First, schools, refined society, and all the advantages of an old country will be secured in a few years, while on the contrary, where settlements are made by the old methods, people are obliged to wait twenty, forty, or more years. Second, with free homesteads as a basis, with the sale of lots for the general good, the greatly increased values of real estate will be for the benefit of all the people, not for schemers and speculators. In the success of this colony, a model will be presented for settling the remainder of the vast territory of our country. "Third, whatever professions and occupations enter into the formation of an intelligent, educated, and thrifty community, should be embraced by this colony, and it should be the object to exhibit all that is best in modern civilization. In particular should moral and religious sentiments prevail, for without these qualities man is nothing. At the same time, tolerance and liberty should also prevail. "One thing more is equally important. Happiness and wealth and the glory of a state spring from the family, and it should be an aim and ambition to preserve the family pure in all its relations, and to labor with the best efforts life and strength can give to make...
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Add this copy of Marvels of the New West: a Vivid Portrayal of the to cart. $35.00, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1888 by The Henry Bill Publishing Compan.
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VG (Boards and textblock edges are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock is cracked; interior is clean with the occasional smudge. ) Green boards with gilt lettering and illustration; marbled textblock edges; xxxvi, 715, [1] pp.; richly illustrated. Nice copy of this U.S. history book.
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Very Good-with no dust jacket. Text is clean. Heavy green binding, gilt lettering. Spine ends bumped, lower front corner rubbed/exposed boards. 1889 printing.; [Cowan, 327]