Excerpt from A Manual and Guide in U. S. History In the preparation of this work it has been the aim to direct the student over the high ways of human activity in U. S. History, and so far as his ability will permit him to go and safely return to lead him to explore the byways by means of inquiries of cause and ef feet, or in other words to guide him down the great channels of historic movement and to the extent of his ability to direct him out at the inlets to search for the springs of motion which. Are the origin of the various effects. That these effects may be rightly interpreted, it is also necessary to study the influences act ing on the rivulets sent out by these springs to determine the direction of their destiny. Only in this way can the real value of events and their relative significance be determined. The trend of the people at a certain time and place has much to do With how they will develop a certain movement and Why they will so act, therefore, having an effect, the act ors must be located in time and place and the stage of civilization studied before the motive which prompted the action can be determined. 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.