Excerpt from Unification of North America: A Law, a Business, a Duty; A Plan of Continental Construction To the declining power of imperial Rome succeeded the spiritual puissance, which has been transmitted from St. Peter to Pius IX, during eighteen consecutive centu ries, and whose dictates and tenets radiate from the Vati can to Polynesia and the continents. Mahomet and his fanatic successors, Koran and sword in hands, overwhelmed Asia and invaded Europe. No body can predict where their propagandis'm would have stopped, if Charles Martel had not hammered it down in the plains of Southern France. We meet, amid the debris of the Roman empire, the shadow of Charlemagne covering the Eastern hemisphere. The barbaric hordes of gengis-khan and Tamerlane are arrested at the gates of Europe - the want of vessels to transport them thither frustrating the designs of world-wide conquest cherished by those blood-thirsty commanders. 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.