Our Nation in the Building (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Our Nation in the Building It occurs to the writer that we take our history too seriously, as if it were a medicine rather than a cordial, and that a little volume written in cheerful disregard of established rules for history-books may find a place upon the bookshelves, perhaps even in the hands of a few readers. Such a volume must of necessity be sketchy, not strictly chronological, and cannot pretend to tell even the larger part about, anything. It cares less for dates than for happenings, less for specific happenings than for movements and currents of feeling. When forced to choose between picturesquely typical incidents and a conscientious narrative of dry fact, it gravitates shamelessly toward the picturesque. Its one effort is to establish a connection between the soil, - our soil, - and those volatile dates that are forever escaping us, and names which mean less to us than the dust of the road. For American history "as she is taught" in the schools is certainly no pastime for the average American, old or young. It is frankly a bore, made up of dates that refuse to stay memorized, and names triple-plated against imagination and as hard to connect with real life as it is to believe that mummies in a museum ever breathed and walked. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.