Excerpt from Life in the Wilds: Or the South African Settlement, a Tale for Young and Old IN an enlightened nation like our own, there are followers of every science which has been marked out for human pursuit. There is no study which has met with entire neglect from all classes of our countrymen. There are men of all ranks and every shade of Opinion, who study the laws of Divine Providence and human duty. There are many more who inquire how the uni verse was formed and under what rules its move ments proceed. Others look back to the records of society and study the historyl of their race. Others examine and compare t e languages of many nations. Others study the principles on which civil laws are founded, and try to discover what there has been of good as well as of evil in the governments under which men have lived from the time of the patriarchs till now. Others - but they are very few - inquire into the prin ciples which regulate the production and distri bution of the necessaries and comforts of life in society. 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.