Excerpt from The History of North America, Vol. 18: The Development of the North Since the Civil War
This volume on the development of the North is the analogue of Volume XVII, The Rise of the New South, and covers the period of forty years since the close of the Civil War. The learned author has not attempted a critical analysis of causes affecting the period, but has written a plain narrative of events, with excursions into the principal fields which arc the theatre of activity at the North since the War, - invention, education, art, industry, and social progress. No task which the historian undertakes is more laborious than to write the history of one's own time. Individuals, incidents, overcrowd the perspective and quite shut out the true line of vision; momentous events seem fragmentary, and passing incidents seem momentous: the unit of measure, which time alone can give, is lacking, and the even balance of parts becomes quite impossible.
Fully aware of the difficulties in treating his theme, Mr. Rogers has not attempted the impossible, and the modest spirit which characterizes that which he has written is a dignified assurance to the reader of the value of the volume.
The distinguishing quality of life and thought in America since the Civil War is energy. Americans are not accused of undue modesty when they point to their past achievements, yet those achievements might seem to excuse, or at least partly to excuse, some overstepping the modesty of nature.
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