American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and Eigth Grades (Classic Reprint)

Dear Mr. Pelo: I hope the children who use your Patriotic Reader will ask themselves what patriotism really means. There is much vague talk about patriotism; and gregarious sentiment on the subject can be easily perverted to wrong uses. Therefore every child should somehow get a clear idea of what love of country implies in the patriots soul and should lead to in the patriots conduct. The love of country is a compound of many elements; but it is always a combination of loves of the places and scenes among which we grew up, of the father, mother, brothers, and sisters with whom our infancy was passed, of the sky and the weather at the home of our youth, and of the natural and artificial environments of our plays and our labors. A wandering life, with no stability of home or of employment, is unfavorable to the development of the warmest love of country; but warm and eager love of country may be felt by persons living under different forms of government and social organization. Poor and uneducated people feel it quite as strongly as the well-to-do and the educated, though they may not be so conscious of the feeling and of its effects on themselves.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.

Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the aged text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org