Excerpt from The Practical Limitations of Historics Precedents: An Address Delivered at the Annual Commencement of the University of Michigan, Thursday, July 1, 1886 There was then little indication that the future would be perturbed by any extraordinary agitations. It prom ised to be an era of repose. Political controversies there were, but that they bore in their depths the tempests of revolution and battle no one imagined. 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.