This is a very wonderful old book. This is meant to be used by teachers - but not just by civics teachers and the like - but by all teachers who have influence on their students. This book was published in 1909 by W.A. Wilde Company, Boston & Chicago. The book measures 5 ¼ inches by 7 3/8 inches and contains xv, 240 pages. The green cloth cover has embossed pictorial on the front and the title on the spine in gilt. The cover shows minor signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine, hardly worth mentioning. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this lovely old book is very good plus.

Contents:

1. The Need and the Method
2. The Lesson of Instinct
3. The Lesson of Breadth
4. The Lesson of Cost
5. The Lesson of Protection
6. The Lesson of Benefit
7. The Lesson of Democracy
8. The Lesson of Liberty
9. The Lesson of Character
10. The Lesson of Duty

Excerpt from The Need and the Method:
We frequently hear men say that in our time the national spirit is losing its intensity. The more extreme are ready to say that patriotism is becoming one of the lost virtues. We do not pay serious heed to such wailings when they come from one who construes some narrow reform into the allness of civic duty and regards those who do not join in his particular crusade as negatively traitorous. Nor are we much moved when the complaint comes from a perfervid orator who would define patriotism as an alliance with his political set. Nor yet again are we ready to accept the statement that several of our large cities are governed in a clumsy, not to say dishonest way, as evidence that the whole country is on its way to destruction. There have been men in every age who declared that humanity was just ready to go over the precipice; but somehow humanity has always declined to fulfil those doleful prophecies. A blind optimism is no more blameworthy than a blind pessimism. The truth usually lies somewhere between the two extreme forms of estimate.
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