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Show This is all plain to every one, but still ndt many lessons in patriotism are taught in our schools. Our thought is that not a school day should pass with joung children without a short lesson in the history of our country being given and a short dissertation dis-sertation upon one or another of the men whose names are punctuation points in American history, until by tho time the child was ready to leave school, whatever else he or she may have failed to learn, tho main points in the country's history would have become an inspiration to him or her. A child thus trained could always be depended upon. Love of country would be as jealous and supreme as mother's love, and whenever the occasion oc-casion presented itself a mind so trained would be sure to be on the right side, or on the side of country, right or wrong. A purely scientific education does not very much help the citizenship of a man. It helps to equip him for the world's work, but the judgment of a man so trained, on any national question is not worth as much as that of the poor man who can just read the news of the day, who has his garden with a vine creeping over his little rough cottage, but who every day asks God to bless the land that brings to him so many blessings. The reason Republics all around tho world are failures, is because no fixed love of country steadies the brains of their volatile peoples.' |