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It is easy to foresee that this country is destined to undergo great and rapid changes. Those that more properly belong to history history will doubtless attempt to record and probably with the questionable veracity and prejudice that are apt to influence the labours of that particular muse; but there is little hope that any traces of American society in its more familiar aspects will be preserved among us through any of the agencies usually employed for such purposes.

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