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attuned to real love of country that he ignores all these 

 pyrotechnics of patriotism, all these absurdities of sub- 

 stituting the watch dog, and the policeman, for the true 

 home, and says no fight, no blood, no "we". 

 "From every mountain-side 

 L,et freedom ring. 



My native country, thee, 

 Land of the noble free, — 

 Thy name I love; 

 I love thy rocks and rills. 

 Thy woods and templed hills; 

 My heart with rapture thrills 

 L/ike that above. 



Let music swell the breeze. 

 And ring from all the trees. 

 Sweet freedom's song; 

 Let mortal tongues awake, 

 Let all that breathe partake. 

 Let the rocks their silence break, — 

 The sound prolong." 



True patriotism is love of country by the individual, 

 with all the fight eliminated. 



Civil History and Natural History. 



This fighting patriotism is given too much prominence, 

 not only on all public occasions, but in the public schools. 

 It is well, of course, for our young folks to be taught 

 about our national struggle for existence. It is well for 

 the young folks to know that the city in which they live 

 takes proper measures for the protection of their home. 

 But of the family home no one would think of laying all, 

 or even the greater part of the stress, upon these pro- 



