develop into a world legislature. (The Interparliamentary Union, by Christian L. Lange; published by the American Association for International Conciliation, New York.)

What is the business which might come before this legislature? (World Organization, chap. IV, by Raymond L. Bridgman. Ginn & Co.)

Why would a world court and a world legislature promote world brotherhood?

JUNE: AMERICAN IDEALS YET TO BE ACHIEVED

THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,

With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Fear not each sudden sound and shock,
"T is of the wave and not the rock;
"T is but the flapping of the sail,
And not a rent made by the gale!
In spite of rock and tempest's roar,
In spite of false lights on the shore,

Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee, are all with thee!

It is worth while to be a citizen of a great country, but size alone is not enough to make a country great. A country must be great in its ideals; it must be greathearted; it must be noble; it must despise and reject all smallness and meanness; it must be faithful to its word; it must keep the faith of treaties; it must be faithful to its mission of civilization in order that it shall be truly great. It is because we believe that of our country that we are proud, aye, that the alien with the first step of his foot upon our soil is proud to be a part of this great democracy.

To select ideals which are distinctly American involves a careful definition of Americanism, which, as our previous discussions show, is something tangible and capable of interpretation. The American spirit, as we have seen, has been bred by the conditions involved in subduing a wilderness and marshaling a nation on a vast continent. Rooted in Old-World ideas freed by the practical exigencies of life, firm in the expression of a strong national purpose and in the construction of law for its fulfillment, the American spirit looms optimistic, craves progress, seeks tolerance and demands justice. This is the spirit which reacts on our domestic institu

"The Obligations of the United States as to Panama Canal Tolls," a speech in the United States Senate, January 21, 1913.

tions and our relations with other countries; this is the spirit which dominates our ideals.

"America means opportunity." This idea is wrought into the fabric of our society. Every person born into the citizenship of this nation has an opportunity to do the work for which he is best fitted. It is for each person to plan his own career, to establish his position as a guardian of our national principles.

Universal education is one of our cherished ideals; a country governed by the masses of the people has the added responsibility of creating an intelligent populace, a responsibility which grows keener and keener as we receive the great influxes from countries where education is a luxury for the few, and as we experience the economic changes of a great and growing country.

Our purpose, then, is to build up a society whose government stands for justice and whose populace is the intelligent administrator of justice. With this ideal embedded in the hearts of the people, the struggle between labor and capital and all other measures of internal reform will eventually be adjusted.

The United States is the cosmopolitan nation of the world. Internationalism is her heritage, and with her complex population, she has perforce grown up with this ideal. In this melting-pot of America all the old racial and hereditary hatreds disappear; here there is no distinction of common or noble, of high or low. Coincident with the growth of this free Republic, there has developed a "new world in Europe," "a new world in civilization," where in common life there is common sympathy, regardless of national boundaries. The influence of America has been active in this great world-wide growth of international life, and her influence promises to be

even greater in the future. If, as James Bryce says, "the masses of America seem likely to constitute one half of civilized mankind," the American ideal of human right and justice will react with tremendous force on the thoughts and deeds of the world.

Although we must admit that the United States has not always been true to her ideals, the great fact remains that the world holds us to our obligations; and it behooves each and every citizen to throw his energy into the upbuilding of the nation so that it shall be faithful to its mission of civilization.

The bibliography for this topic includes a review of the books mentioned under the preceding topics.

What forces are tending to make the whole civilized world a great melting-pot?

In what ways are the ideals of the United States becoming the ideals of the world?

Why is the effort to break down militarism consistent with American ideals?

GRADE VIII

THE WORLD FAMILY

BY FANNIE FERN ANDREWS

INTRODUCTION

THE FATHERLAND

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

WHERE is the true man's fatherland?
Is it where he by chance is born?
Doth not the yearning spirit scorn
In such scant borders to be spanned?
Oh yes! his fatherland must be
As the blue heaven wide and free!

Where'er a human heart doth wear
Joy's myrtle-wreath or sorrow's gyves,
Where'er a human spirit strives
After a life more true and fair,

There is the true man's birthplace grand,
His is a world-wide fatherland!

Where'er a single slave doth pine,

Where'er one man may help another,
Thank God for such a birthright, brother,-
That spot of earth is thine and mine!
There is the true man's birthplace grand,
His is a world-wide fatherland!

The central aim of the first six grades has been to kindle in the child an appreciation of his duties and