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children, shows them a Httle too advanced for use in the United 

 States. In the Third Reader, known as "Patriotism and Colo- 

 nization," we read (page 12) : 



"Drop the soldiers' musket as though it were hot iron! 

 For this refusal [to drill] you will be treated as rebels, as 

 cowards and as lacking in noble sentiments. But what of that ? 

 Do not shoulder the musket! If they point out to you that 

 an enemy is invading the country, why, let him invade ! Even 

 if they show you that he is tearing down the throne or the 

 presidential chair! What do you care for those trifles?" 



On page 15: "Don't get excited for the sake of the flag! 

 It is nothing but three yards of cloth stuck on a pole !" 



On page 33 : "One's country is not made up by territorial 

 boundaries nor by the citizens who dwell therein, no, they are 

 mere despots who exploit those ideas." 



On page 80: "The words, 'country,' 'flag,' and 'family,' 

 do not excite in me more than hypocritical echoes of wind and 

 sound." 



On page 84, and following: "When I think of the evils I 

 have seen and suffered, which proceed from national hatreds, 

 I recognize that they all rest upon a gross lie, the love of one's 

 country." 



"The flag is but the symbol of tyranny and misery." 



"Industry and commerce are the names by which they [mer- 

 chants] cover up their robberies." 



"Marriage is prostitution sanctified by the church and pro- 

 tected by the state." 



"The family is one of the principal obstacles to the enlight- 

 enment of men." 



In the "Bulletin of the Modern School," Vol. V, No. i, page 

 5 (1908), an article reads: "Religion has retarded the evolu- 

 tion of man, has prolonged his primitive weakness, has made 

 him retrograde to his ancestral brutishness, has cultivated and 

 augmented the terrors arising from ignorance of phenomena, 

 the miseries which those sufifer who do not know how to mod- 

 ify natural effects to their advantage, and the injuries which 

 are the results of general incapacity and of various obsessions ; 

 and finally it has been wonderfully united with brute force to 

 assist the material and moral authority of the violent and the 

 astute as the oppressors of the great mass of humanity." 



And on page 6 following, in speaking of the separation of 



