Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-18
APPLETON5'
AM ERICAN CYCLOPEDIA
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The work originally published under the
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completed in 1853, since which time the
wide circulation which it has attained in
all parts OF tho United States, and the
signal developments which have taken place
in every branch of science, literature, and
art, have induced the editors and publish
ers to submit to an. exact and thorough re
| vision, and to issue a new edi ton entitled
the American Cycopadia. 81
Within the past ten years the progress of
discovery in every department otknowl
| imperative want.
The movement of political affairs has
kept pace with the discoveries Of science,
and their fruitful application to the indus
| trial and useful arts and the convenience
and refinement of social life. Great wars
and consequent revolutions have occurred
involving national Ranges of peculiar mo
ment The civil war of our own country,
which was at its height when the last vol
ume of the old work appeared, has happl-
ly been ended, and new course OF COM
mercial aud industrial activity has been
commenced.
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knowledge have been made by the indie
| tatigable explorers of Africa.
The great political revolutions of the last
decade. witt the natural result of the lapse
of time. have brought into public view a
multitude of new men, whose names are in
lssvcry ones mouth, and of whose lives ev-
cry one is curious TO know the articuarS
Great battles have been fought aud impor-
tant seiees maintained, OF which The details
are as yet preserved only in newspapers or
a the tr8nSien, publications Of The day.
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permanent and authentic history. IS #t &.
Fl In preparing the present edition for The
| @ress, it has accordingly been the aimsso
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have been suggested by longer experience
ana enlarged knowledge. .e
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