Excerpt from The Ready Lawyer: Or, the Business Men's, Farmers', Mechanics', Miners' and Settlers', Legal Adviser; The Amended Constitution of the United States of America To all People of the United States of America who desire fundamental and practical information in the current branches of the Business of Life, with practical legal and business forms for use in pursuing the same, this book is most respectfully dedicated, by The Author And Compiler. "Ignorance everywhere, clothes itself in rags and lives in hovels, but when man's nature is opened by education, his desires clamor at the gateway of every nerve and sense for gratification. The awakened soul has wants as well as the body. Its desires take the wings of the light, and fly to the uttermost parts of the earth for satisfaction. They change the rude hut into the neat cottage, and fill it with objects which satisfy the wants of the soul as well as the wants of the body. Enter the homes of educated labor in this land, and, taking an inventory of the articles therein which minister to taste and culture; contrast the result with what is found, the world over, in the hovels of ignorance. Some idea will thus be obtained of the industrial power of general intelligence. The elevation of a people in intelligence and aste, increases their demands for the products of human industry and skill, and at the same time it intensifies human effort and multiplies and varies the forms of industry. Wealth is the child of education." The money value of a knowledge of the law and the business forms, by which we obtain title to and hold the property we possess, can hardly be over-estimated. "Knowledge is power" and to know how to do things right, is great gain. 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.