Excerpt from Nineteenth Century Educational Ideals, and Their Reaction on Religion in the United StatesIt would be quite interesting to get aboard the edu cational craft at the beginning and go the entire journey from thence to the present time, for then we would have opportunity to be come acquainted with all the various processes by means of which i deals of this kind are formed, tested, and offered for acceptance to the people, but since our aim is somewhat more philosophical than historica1, we shall content ourselves with remaining on the land and admiring what we shall venture to speak of as the greatest set OF ideals ever produced by mankind, with the assurance, however, that we shall be permitted to take an occasional trip to the water's edge.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.