...sible, particularly of documents which shed new light on the history of the islands. For this purpose, extensive research has been carried on in the national archives of the United States, Great Britain, and France, and minor investigations have been made in the archives of Belgium and Mexico and in a number of libraries and collections in the United States. Many thousan...

..., is equivalent to the breaking down of those barriers of class, race, and national territory which kept men from perceiving the full import of their ... ...tion would infallibly produce minds filled with the truth. 5. Education as National and as Social. As soon as the first enthusiasm for freedom waned, ... ...situation identified the movement for a state-supported education with the nationalistic movement in political life—a fact of incalculable significanc... ...the civic function was identified with the realization of the ideal of the national state. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism... ...e. The “state” was substituted for humanity; cosmo- politanism gave way to nationalism. To form the citizen, not the “man,” became the aim of educatio... ...ies, biographies, books of travel, scientific treatises, on the shelves of libraries. The imposing stupendous bulk of this material has un- consciousl...

...he next door. He had an immense collection of second hand books. Circulating libraries were not then in use; but we agreed that, on certain reasonable... ...d to one hundred: this was the mother of all the North American subscription libraries, now so numer ous. It is become a great thing itself, and cont... ... ous. It is become a great thing itself, and continually in creasing. These libraries have improved the general conver sation of the Americans, made... ...fested its utility, was imitated by other towns, and in other provinces. The libraries were augmented by donations; reading became fash ionable; and ... ... the government of neighbor ing states, and even on the conduct of our best national allies, which may be attended with the most pernicious con sequ...