Excerpt from A Man's Conscience: A Novel<br><br>Much of the primitive grandeur has departed with the introduction of modern cultivation; the mechanical tilling of the soil, the throbbing plough, and whirling reaper have almost obliterated the memory of those past silent days.<br><br>Besides the dwarfed growth - now for the. Most part represented by stumps or skeleton branches that stood at no great distance from the dwelling, there was also a young plantation of hardy trees, planted and coaxed into comparative thriftiness by Sandy's fostering care but aside from this there was little attempt at variety in the culture of the soil.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.