The Illumination of Joseph Keeler, or on to the Land (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Illumination of Joseph Keeler, or on to the Land I have read with keen interest Dr. Bryce´s allegory portraying certain social and economic conditions of that great Dominion for which all citizens of the United States have so much regard, and with whose welfare and prosperity they are profoundly concerned. In the presence of the most awful war hitherto known to mankind, nothing affords an American greater satisfaction than that boundary line, 4,000 miles long between Canada and the United States, which, nominally unfortified, is in fact jealously guarded by essential friendliness, international respect and mutual esteem. Dr. Bryce´s equipment as the learned and experienced Chief Medical Officer of Immigration of Canada has brought him face to face with those fundamental problems of life and living which within the last half century have put upon the open road a hitherto unexampled number of the human race. These migrations are at bottom quests for more liberty, more and better food, and better housing, and all of these have been found, perhaps as never before, in the new world. And yet any close observer cannot fail to be struck with that strange counter migration today, drawing the children of the original immigrants away from the land and into the cities, which like magnets seem to possess an almost inexplicable attraction. For some years Dr. Bryce has been a careful student of rural depopulation and, not content with merely observing phenomena, has sought to estimate and to control them. The pages which follow will be found to contain many interesting data of population, overpopulation, depopulation, food supply and the like, together with much incidental information of value such as that which relates how, after the Irish famine of 1846, 5,463 immigrants died of typhus fever on their arrival in the St. Lawrence. May this little volume incite to a closer study of these problems many a thoughtful person both in the Dominion and in the United States, for the same problems are confronting both peoples and are found on both sides of the line. 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.
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