HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY S. E. FORMAN ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON F. CIVIL Govt. W. P. I. PREFACE Of the whole number of pupils who can study Civil Government with profit more than nine-tenths are in the two upper classes of the grammar schools and in the two lower classes of the high schools. In these classes there are more than a million young people who can be led into a just appreciation of the rights and duties of citizens. Here is a rich field for the sower, an opportunity vast in its proportions for improving the quality of American citizenship and elevating the American electorate. The aim of this little book is to help those teachers who are trying to give the masses of their pupils sound and systematic instruction in Civil Government: it is intended for use at the top of the grammar school and at the bottom of the high school. Its primary aim is not to teach facts. You cannot start young people on the road to good citizenship by gorging their minds with facts about government. The primary aim of the book is to establish political ideals and to indoctrinate in notions of civic morality. In the first few lessons (Lessons I-V) the pupil studies the little world in which he moves and has his being. He takes a peep at his own moral nature and he studies the governments of the home and of the school. Then he takes up the great subject of citizenship (Lessons VI-XI) and learns of civic rights and civic duties. Lessons XII-XV |