In the companion volume of this series, "Men of Action, " the

attempt was made to give the essential facts of American history by

sketching in broad outline the men who made that history -- the

discoverers, pioneers, presidents, statesmen, soldiers, and sailors --

and describing the part which each of them played.

It was almost like watching a great building grow under the hands

of the workmen, this one adding a stone and that one adding

another; but there was one great difference. For a building, the plans

are made carefully beforehand, worked out to the smallest detail,

and followed to the letter, so that every stone goes exactly where it

belongs, and the work of all the men fits together into a complete

and perfect whole. But when America was started, no one had more

than the vaguest idea of what the finished result was to be; indeed,

many questioned whether any enduring structure could be reared on

a foundation such as ours. So there was much useless labor, one

workman tearing down what another had built, and only a few of

them working with any clear vision of the future.

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