Excerpt from Are We a Stupid People?: By One of Them Thus, varying the order of the American humorist at twenty one, I began life by d g the whole social and political concern, and acquired a subjective certitude of the worthlessness and corruption of English society and politics. Doubting, however, the soundness of this precocious judgment, I resolved to test it by careful examination and comparison with the civil and social constitution of other nations. 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.