The Reign of Law

The Reign of Law
A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields

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The Reign of Law by James Lane Allen

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1900

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The Reign of Law
A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields

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One of the first American novels to deal openly with religious doubt and Darwinism.

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cky alone. To the north had begun the building of ships, American ships for American commerce, for American arms, for a nation which Nature had herself created and had distinguished as a sea-faring race. To the south had begun the raising of cotton. As the great period of shipbuilding went on-- greatest during the twenty years or more ending in 1860; as the great period of cotton-raising and cotton-baling went on--never so great before as that in that same year--the two parts of the nation looked equally to the one border plateau lying between them, to several counties of Kentucky, for most of the nation's hemp. It was in those days of the North that the CONSTITUTION was rigged with Russian hemp on one side, with American hemp on the other, for a patriotic test of the superiority of home-grown, home-prepared fibre; and thanks to the latter, before those days ended with the outbreak of the Civil War, the country had become second to Great Britain alone in her ocean craft, and but little behind that mistress of

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