Excerpt from The Element of Inspiration in the Schools: Annual Address Delivered at the 17th Annual Conference of the Associated Academic Principals, December 26, 1901, Syracuse City Hall, Syracuse, N. Y They brought English traditions and laws and institutions with them. They would leave behind some things not well to take, but they expected in essentials to follow the English models. In their persons and in their political organization they were, were glad to be, and expected to' continue to be, subject to the king and parliament of England. In time other great peoples sent colonies to our shores. Some of them brought ideas and institutions of their own. Colonial relations were established. English thought and feeling and usage were somewhat modified, but in essentials the English exercised control and English policies happily prevailed. A new nation resulted. It was not quite like the English nation, but it never ceased to be an English nation. Isolation, work in the open air, led liberty to grow, but respect for govern ment did not grow. Governmental limitations were irksome. Rule from over the sea was distasteful. O'ur fathers came to be opposed to parliaments as well as to kings. They came to be jealous of all government that could govern. Their preju dices carried them almost to chaos, and but for the nerve and conscientiousness and resourcefulness of their race would have carried them to destruction. Separation was imperative and inevitable. Unhappily it had to come by violence. 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.