Excerpt from Wake Up Americans: Addressed to the American Colony in San Francisco Their capacity for sentiment is one of the most im portant of those characteristics which distinguish men from dogs. A man who is incapable of sentiment is no better than a dog. The sentimental interest which attaches to the California tradition is derived from four historical elements. The first of these is the great epic story of the advance of the Aryan races in their westward march across the world. 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.