Excerpt from The Journal of American History, 1907, Vol. 1: Relating Life Stories of Men and Events That Have Entered Into the Building of the Western Continent The aged monarchies proclaimed it a hazardous risk and forecasted short life to the bold knight, pronouncing self-government as the vision of irre sponsible theorists. 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.