Excerpt from History of the United States of America, Designed for Schools To commune with the great and mighty dead - to turn our thoughts backward along the path of time, and call from their silent graves the buried heroes of the past, and people with their living forms those old battle fields where freemen, under the protection of the God of Hea ven, fought, not for a crown, but for liberty - is an employment both pleasing and instructive. All history is instructive, but that of our own country is peculiarly interesting. The actors in its earliest periods, and in its revolution ary struggle, were men of patriotism, virtue, and religion. Rising above the selfish feelings of human nature, they planned and acted, not for themselves alone, but for their country, and the unborn millions who were yet to tread its soil. Believing in the overruling provi dence of God, they were not ashamed to look to Him for direction, nor to lean on his arm for support. Convinced that no people could flou rish without a proper training of the mind, they early turned their at tention to schools and colleges, believing them to be the nurseries of freedom. 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.