Excerpt from The Influence of the Proprietors in Founding the State of New JerseyWhich One Of these was the period distinctively formative Of the political character Of the people Of New Jersey The answer to this question does not lie upon the surface of the events of these divisions Of the past, for strongly marked as are the lines which separate these periods, there is but one growth, in which they are all necessary factors; so complete is the unity Of continuous life, that the history Of one involves the consideration of all. Our investigation brings us face to face with this fact, that all these separate stages are vitally essential to the complete development, therefore in one sense equally essential, yet we are cheered in our further search by the reection that there must have been a time whose peculiar relations to its past and future were more fully determinative Of political character than those of any other period. Is there not in the life of every people a time, when the motives and thoughts and all the lines Of social life Of the past come together, and then all lengthen On into our present, so that if we trace them back they seem to have radiated from that point and further back all radiate toward that point, so that441] In Founding the State of New Jersey.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

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