Excerpt from Advocate of Peace, and Universal Brotherhood, Vol. 1: May, 1846 Such being the case with Geography, what is the character of History - elementary History, written expressly for the young and used in com mon schools We all know that they are but accounts of battles, wars, and bloodshed. These events are singled out in history to the neglect and exclusion of almost every other fact, and dressed up in the most at tractive garb, and thus presented to the susceptible minds of children in a manner that cannot fail ...
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Excerpt from Advocate of Peace, and Universal Brotherhood, Vol. 1: May, 1846 Such being the case with Geography, what is the character of History - elementary History, written expressly for the young and used in com mon schools We all know that they are but accounts of battles, wars, and bloodshed. These events are singled out in history to the neglect and exclusion of almost every other fact, and dressed up in the most at tractive garb, and thus presented to the susceptible minds of children in a manner that cannot fail to create in them a thirst for martial glory, and familiarize them with scenes of bloodshed, carnage, and rapine, which viewed in any other light, would make them recoil and shudder at the bare suggestion. Where such ideas, when presented to the youthful mind, do not have the effect alluded to at once, (for all minds are not alike, an idea or sentiment will be readily imbibed by one mind, which another instinctively recoils from, ) yet by the daily study of them they finally produce these effects. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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