Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Spirit of Democracy
The Spirit of Democracy - unlike other books - aims to assemble in convenient arrangement, for school purposes, many of the most stirring speeches and most virile poems applicable to the present situation. In preparation Of this book we have hoped to render it easier for busy teachers to avoid the more conventional readings and declama tions, and instead to give their pupils the prose and verse certain to make them more loyal and intelligent patriots.
The speeches of the war have been Open to the entire world, but those brought together in this volume are believed to represent the great cause with special fitness.
As to the verse, after the consideration Of much of the bewildering variety that has appeared, we have included in this volume poems which will, it is hoped, re?ect all of the various considerations involved.
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