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shall meet these questions again in later chapters. 



The Public Domain is too old, too complicated, 

 too detailed, too technical, too significant in a thou- 

 sand ways, too intimately woven into the warp and 

 woof of the governmental fabric to describe with 

 greater particularity here without endangering the 

 perspectives of the broad national picture of which 

 it is a part. 



The slight sketch here attempted leaves imagi- 

 nation to fill in connecting lines. Students of history 

 and government will find it wholly inadequate. It 

 is not for them, however, that this book is written, 

 but for those men and women busy with living who 

 want graphic backgrounds, true perspectives and 

 sound relationships without cluttering detail in order 

 that they may plan intelligently and live vigorously 

 the more useful national life which the new times de- 

 mand of every citizen. 



