The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-24

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Of THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLIC EDIA
was completed in 1868, since which time the wide
circulation which IL has attained in all parts OF
| the United States, and the signal Developments
which have taken place in every branca OF
science, literature, and art, have induced the
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entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC EDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress OF dis
| covery in every department of knowledge has
made q new work of reference an imperative
want.
The movement of political affairs has kept
pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the indus rial and useful
arts and the convenience and refinement of social
life. Great wars and consequent revolutions
have occurred, involving national changes of
peculiar moment. The civil war of our own
country, which was at Its height when the last
volume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended. and a new course of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced
Large ancessions to our geographical knowl
edge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa,
The great political revolutions of the last de-
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the particulars Great battles have been fought
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