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Excerpt from Our Nation in the Building
The author honestly believes that the little she has been able to tell between the covers of this book is true, that while it may not be history in the accepted sense, there is not one word of fiction in it. Her rea son for writing it, and her hope in publishing it is that it may serve to emphasize the fact that American his tory is not mummy - like after all, but full of inspiring incident, and brimming with human nature.
She Wishes to express her thanks to the authors of the hundred and more books she has consulted in mak ing her little composite sketch, as well as to the friends of ripe experience who have generously opened for her their treasure-houses of memory. To beg pardon of one and all if she has appropriated too much of their labor to her own use, or if upon the other hand, she appears to have disregarded it merely to state her own opinion.
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