Excerpt from Historical Studies: Relating Chiefly to Staffordshire The student must not neglect, however, the microscope slides those insignificant slips of glass on which are mounted tiny sections through parts of the organs themselves. Here again he sees a similar interdependence, on a more parochial scale, of one minute cell upon another, and a similar joint-stock association among the microscopical units of the human frame. To display a sectional view of our race, to exhibit within the compass of a single work the mutual reaction of all those events that have gone to make England what she is, is a task to be under taken only by those great master scribes of history of whom we seem to have lost the most modern in the late Lord Acton. It is given to few, however, to make those sweeping dissections in the grand manner of the classic historians, and ours has been a far more modest undertaking. Conscious of our limitations in knowledge, in comprehensive ness of outlook, and in powers of generalisation, we have been content to use the microscope on one or two small subdivisions of certain larger sections that have been prepared by abler hands than ours. Still, we venture to believe that in each of these studies there may be discerned dimly the elemental units and primitive activities that have been engaged in the cell growth of this country. 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.