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THE EMANCIPATION OF MASSACHUSETTS THE DREAM AND THE REALITY
By Brooks Adams
PREFATORY NOTE TO FIRST EDITION.
I am under the deepest obligations to the Hon. Mellen Chamberlain and
Mr. Charles Deane.
The generosity of my friend Mr. Frank Hamilton Cushing in putting at my
disposal the unpublished results of his researches among the Zuñis is in
keeping with the originality and power of his mind. Without his aid my
attempt would have been impossible. I have also to thank Prof. Henry C.
Chapman, J. A. Gordon, M. D., Prof. William James, and Alpheus Hyatt,
Esq., for the kindness with which they assisted me. I feel that any
merit this volume may possess is due to these gentlemen; its faults are
all my own.
BROOKS ADAMS.
QUINCY, _September_ 17, 1886.
CONTENTS.
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE COMMONWEALTH