The Next War An Appeal To Common Sense Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from An Appeal to Experience and Common Sense: By a Comparison of the Present With Former Periods The period at which we are now arrived seems to demand a more consistent proceed ing; we are called upon for a third time within the memory of a great part of the nation, to look our dangers and our difficulties in the face; but if we persist in supposing that our prese'ht 31 tuation has no parallel, and that our dangers can be averted by no recurrence to precedent, we shall certainly suffer by ignorance with the means of knowledge in our hands, and give our: selves up to the inactivity of prejudice and the deceits of party-spirit, in spite of the most de cided experience, and in contempt of our clear est'interests. Already the language of despond ence is plentifullv circulated, and predictions are uttered with a decisive tone, although but the mere duplicates of others which never were fulfilled, and which perhaps were never intended for any other than a temporary purpose. 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.