Draper. Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America (1865)

Draper, John William. Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1865. First Edition. [9426] Russet publisher's cloth, frayed at the headcap, 8 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches, 1887 private bookplate, vii., 325 clean pp., most pages unopened. Publisher's adverts at end; adverts slip tipped in at the beginning of chapter one for Draper's soon-to-be-published History of the Civil War. Good. Hardcover. "In a work on 'The Intellectual Development of Europe,' published by me in 1863, I showed that the historical progress of the nations of that continent illustrates the fact that social advancement is as completely under the control of natural law as is the bodily growth of an individual...Selecting, therefore, some of the more prominent principles thus presented, I design to show in this work their bearing oncertain questions of great political interest in America." - Preface.Chapter I. - On the Influence of Climate; Chapter II. - On the Effects of Emigration; Chapt