The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-03-07

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ref THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA
was completed in 1858, 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 branch OF
science, literature, and art, have induced the
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entitled THE AMERICAN CYCLIC rHDIA.
Within the last ten years the progress of dis
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made a new work of reference an imperative
want.
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pace with the discoveries of science, and their
fruitful application to the industrial 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 W
country, which was at its height when the last
volume of the old work appeared, has happily
been ended, and q new course of commercial
and industrial activity has been commenced.
Large accessions to our geographical knowl.
edge have been made by the indefatigable ex-
plorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last de-
cade, with the natural result OF The lapse OF time;
new men, whose names are in every ones mouth,
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the particulars. Great battles have been fought
and important sieges maintained, of which the
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