This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... A LETTER TO AMERICAN TEACHERS OF HISTORY 1603 H Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Availing myself of the privilege commonly granted, in the liberal professions, to age and seniority, I use the freedom of an old colleague in offering this small volume for your acceptance. Some fifteen years ago, on ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ... A LETTER TO AMERICAN TEACHERS OF HISTORY 1603 H Street, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Availing myself of the privilege commonly granted, in the liberal professions, to age and seniority, I use the freedom of an old colleague in offering this small volume for your acceptance. Some fifteen years ago, on retiring from the Presidency of the Historical Association, I made a short address on the relations of the Historical Department to society; and, had such a custom existed, I should have gladly enlarged the paper to the dimensions of a Report. The volume now sent you, is, in effect, such a Report, unofficial and personal. Touching, as it does, some of the most delicate relations of University Instruction in rival departments, the book has too much the air of provoking controversy. I do not know that controversy would do harm, but I see nothing to be gained by provoking it. For the moment, the problem is chiefly one of technical instruction; of grouping departments; at most, of hierarchy in the sciences. Some day, it may become a question whether one department, or another, is to impose on the University a final law of instruction; but, for the present, it is a domestic matter, to be settled at home before inviting the world to interfere. Therefore, the volume will not be published, or offered for sale, or sent to the press for notice. For the same reason, the volume needs no acknowledgment. Unless the questions which it raises or suggests seem to you so personal as to need action, you have probably no other personal interest than that of avoiding the discussion altogether. Few of us are required to look ten, or twenty years, or a whole generation ahead, in order to realize what will then be the relation of history to physics or physiology, ..
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UsedGood. Hardcover, with an introduction by Brooks Adams; fading and shelf wear to e xterior; corners bumped; binding reinforced; fading to pages; otherwise con tents in good condition with clean text.
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Fine. Reprint of 1919 Macmillan edition, 1949, hardcover with mustard yellow cloth boards, octavo, 317pp., not illustrated. Book fine with handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering. xv, 317pp. Near fine. Bit of age toning to endpapers (only). Tight, handsome facsimile reprint of this last collection of Adams' essays, first published just after his 1918 death and featuring an introduction by his brother, Brooks. A superb, bright copy.
