Excerpt from American Ideals: Selected Patriotic Readings for Seventh and Eighth Grades and Junior High Schools 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 patriot's soul and should lead to in the patriot's conduct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.