Excerpt from Two Rivulets: Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India Has not the time come, indeed, in the development of the New World, when its Politics should ascend into atmospheres and regions hitherto unknown - (far, far different from the miserable business that of late and current years passes nu der that name) - and take rank with Science, Philosophy and Art points, in especial, have become very dear to me, and all through I seek to make them again and again. 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.