Excerpt from My Country: A Textbook in Civics and Patriotism for Young AmericansMy Country has been written to meet the needs of the new era ushered in by the war. A new leaf in the affairs of the world was turned in 1914, and no book on govern ment issued before that year can meet changed conditions. The author has endeavored to present each phase of the' subject from the point of view of the present, but always with a look backward and forward.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 historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.