A History of the United States, Vol. 1: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A History of the United States, Vol. 1: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000-1660

The guiding idea in the present work is to view the subject as the record of an evolution, and to trace the growth of the nation from the standpoint of that which preceded rather than from that which followed. In other words, I have tried to see in the annals of the past the story of living forces, always struggling onward and up ward toward that which is better and higher in human conception. It is only in this way that justice can be done to the memories of those who have gone before and have left for us a splendid heritage. They treated the problems which arose in their time by the light of the age in which they lived. To estimate them by the conditions and ideas of the present day is to give a false picture to the reader and the student.

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