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Excerpt from The New Chivalry: The Statement of a Movement, Among Men and Young Men in the Defense of Home and Country I desire to express here my deep sense of obligation to many friends for the constant stimulation they gave me in the performance of a most difficult task, for their care in revising proofs, and for their many kindly criticisms and helpful suggestions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of r...

Excerpt from A Community Center: What It Is and How to Organize It Sir: To make more valuable to the people those things from which the people are accustomed to derive value has very appropriately been said to be the prime business of legislators. That the schoolhouse, whose value to the people is already great, may become still more valuable to them, is the purpose of the community-organization movement which this bureau has undertaken to fo...

Excerpt from Robinson Crusoe, Social Engineer: How the Discovery of Robinson Crusoe Solves, the Labor Problem and Opens the Path, to Industrial PeaceThe tragedy of the horn-locked deer aptly exhibits the condition of capitalists and laborers during the past one hundred and fifty years. They, too, as in the case of the deer, have like interests. These like interests are common interests. Industrial con¿icts are, therefore, civil wars. Mutual ha...

Excerpt from Great Pictures as Moral Teachers: With Twenty Reproductions of Photographs From Originals of Painting and Sculpture, Each Accompanied by an Interpretation, Also an Introduction on the Use of Pictures in Teaching The principle of art is the incarnation of God's eternal beauty: The principle of religion is the incarnation of God's eternal human heart. Neither can do the other's work, yet their work is comple mentary, and I wish the...

Excerpt from A Community Church: The Story of a Minister's Experience, Which Led Him From the Church, Militant to the Church Democratic James Bryce in his American Commonwealth shows that he was equally impressed With the uniqueness of the fact that an established church in the United States glares by its ah sence, but this Russian immigrant had dis covered a movement which was just beginning when Mr. Bryce left America. The purpose of this ...

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Excerpt from Benjamin West, His Life and Work: A MonographIt is in the spirit of this letter that the following monograph is written, and the writer asks the reader kindly to bear in mind that it is as a layman without any knowledge of the technic of art, that he writes.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important his...

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our cont...