# The romance of the Canadian Pacific Railway

Author: MacBeth, R. G. (Roderick George), 1858-1934

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69588

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## Summary

The fascination for studying the genesis of things that exist seems to be universal. Men have an instinctive and urgent desire to find out how objects that are seen actually originated. Scientists and savages alike, for instance, are still hammering out theories as to the process by which the world was made, though to most of us the most ancient account is adequate. Once I knew an Indian boy on the prairie who was so curious to discover how the figure of a dog appeared at the centre of a large glass “marble” we were playing with, that when I had turned away for a moment, he broke it open with the back of a tomahawk. Similarly, we have known exploring scientists who spent laborious lives i...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-romance-of-the-canadian-pacific-railway-69588/chapters/2/index.md)