ideals of others, and tends to prevent hard, dogmatic, and
uncompromising judgments and attitudes.

(_c_) It gives appreciation of the civic and political institutions
of to-day--their origin, development, and purposes--and hence
teaches the rights and obligations that are inherent in
citizenship.

(_d_) It inspires patriotism "through arousing noble emotions that
revolve about inherited responsibilities." ["A study of the times
that tried men's souls tends to form souls that are capable of
enduring trial."--_Hinsdale._]

(_e_) It reveals the slow evolutionary processes that operate in
social life, and hence tends to encourage one to put himself in
harmony with the laws of social evolution and to strive for social
betterment while he at the same time is patient with existing
conditions.

(_f_) It breaks down provincialism through revealing the relations,
common traits, and interdependence of one community with another,
and one nation with all other nations.

3. Moral and Religious.

(_a_) It habituates to weighing motives and actions as regards
their righteousness.

(_b_) It implants ideals of personal character by disclosing the
personal qualities and moral accomplishments of men and women who
have, in large ways, affected history, and who have in consequence
received lasting honor and renown.

(_c_) It teaches us to see something of the intangible forces that
override personal preferences and hinder the direct application of
principles sincerely held.

(_d_) It inspires a love of truth.

(_e_) It develops charity for the past; forbearance for the
present; and faith and hope for the future.

4. AEsthetic (appealing to the sense of order, beauty, and proportion).

(_a_) It stirs to an appreciation of the beauties of man's handwork
in sculpture, architecture, painting, musical and literary form,
industry and commerce.

(_b_) It reveals the beauties of human genius in adapting
institutions and governmental forms and processes to desired ends.

(_c_) It refines and enriches the emotions by bringing them into
contact with the emotional expressions of the race.

(_d_) It develops literary expression, and a taste for good
reading.

(_e_) It thrills and inspires, and incites to more thorough-going
efforts to attain ideals of proportion and order.

5. Practical.

(_a_) It aids in i