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Dr. Lord's volume on "American Statesmen" was written some years after the issue of his volume on "Warriors and Statesmen," which was Volume IV of his original series of five volumes. The wide popular acceptance of the five volumes encouraged him to extend the series by including, and rewriting for the purpose, others of his great range of lectures. The volume called "Warriors and Statesmen" (now otherwise distributed) included a number of lectures which in this new edition have been arranged in more natural grouping. Among them were the lectures on Hamilton and Webster. It has been deemed wise to bring these into closer relation with. | 1 Beacon Lights of History Volume 11 A free download from http Beacon Lights of History Volume 11 The Project Gutenberg eBook Beacon Lights of History Volume XI by John Lord This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Beacon Lights of History Volume XI Author John Lord Release Date January 8 2004 eBook 10644 Language English Character set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME XI E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Charlie Kirschner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team LORD S LECTURES Beacon Lights of History Volume 11 BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME XI 2 AMERICAN FOUNDERS. BY JOHN LORD . AUTHOR OF THE OLD ROMAN WORLD MODERN EUROPE ETC. ETC. PUBLISHERS PREFACE. Dr. Lord s volume on American Statesmen was written some years after the issue of his volume on Warriors and Statesmen which was Volume IV of his original series of five volumes. The wide popular acceptance of the five volumes encouraged him to extend the series by including and rewriting for the purpose others of his great range of lectures. The volume called Warriors and Statesmen now otherwise distributed included a number of lectures which in this new edition have been arranged in more natural grouping. Among them were the lectures on Hamilton and Webster. It has been deemed wise to bring these into closer relation with their contemporaries and thus Hamilton is now placed in this volume among the other American Founders and Webster in the volume on American Leaders. Of the Founders there is one of whom Dr. Lord did not treat yet whose services--especially in the popular confirmation of the Constitution by the various States and notably in its fundamental interpretation by the United States Supreme .