Excerpt from From the Old World to the New: How America Was Found and Settled The aim of this little book is to place before our younger grammar school children a simple connected account of the discovery and settlement of America. The day of the biographical primary history is passing. That of the book of disconnected history stories is already past. History is an ever lengthening chain of causes and effects. As such we must teach it. We must seek in the Old World the facts which will make possible our knowl edge of the New. We must look far back of Columbus to find the real meaning of the discoverer's work. We must look upon that work as in its turn a cause of other move ments, fraught with mighty consequences for us of to-day. We must teach our children not so much what as why. Then only will the maze of facts become to them intelligible. Then only will they find in historical reading and study the joy which should be theirs. 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.