The Inner Life of the United States

hing the accomplishments, the thoughts, and the faculties of the people, my principal object was to give a more correct idea of the national tendencies, and to show to advantage the intellectual resources and the moral forces they have at their disposal. In the present instance, however, 1 have made it my task to enumerate actual facts and figures, in order that a fuller and truer conception of the situation may be arrived at. And in this I have been greatly assisted by the statistical works which are in constant process of publication, and relate to life in its various aspects, commercial, social, and political. Among these volumes I would mention especially the great and comprehensive work commonly called " TheCensus," which is published by the State every ten years, and gives statistic tables on all kinds of subjects. It is compiled in such a manner as to enable us easily to compare the various ramifications of the life and growth of the nation. Thus we are put in a position to obtain a general survey of the situation as it actually is, and as our studies on the question now under consideration have hitherto been of an analytical nature, they now become necessarily synthetical. The United States of America cover an area of 2,991,880 square miles, exclusive of Alaska and Indian territory, and are inhabited by nearly 77,000,000 souls. These astounding figures gain in eloquence when we remember that the nation is practically but a century old; that in the be... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.