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Teachers College Record Volume 21 ebook

Teachers College Record Volume 21 ebook

Teachers College Record Volume 21.cU S Government
Teachers College Record Volume 21
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Author: U S Government
Page Count: 174 pages
Published Date: 16 Jan 2013
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781234257170
File size: 42 Mb
Download Link: Teachers College Record Volume 21
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... a superior kind of gossip. The present can have its full meaning only when viewed as the cumulative summation of the whole past. Between the poverty of food, clothing, and shelter of our primitive ancestors and the abundance and variety of twentieth century utilities and luxuries lie many epochs of slow growth. Between the early attitude of enmity toward all save those of the immediate family or clan and the attitude of universal amity inherent in the conception of a world embracing league is a story of age-long struggle. Through learning of the steps which have meant progress in these two forms of activity we learn the method of progress itself. By example upon example we see emerge the great principles of human conduct which must be employed to-day, to-morrow, and forever in maintaining the values we have achieved and in progressing to higher levels. In the history of the practical arts we see the history of man's conquest of nature as a record of the discovery of natural law and conformity to it through adjustment and inventions in using its materials and forces. In the development of means for more fully using the resources of nature through the invention of tools for production and manufacture, and of vehicles for transportation, we see the growing need for cooperation among men in using these inventions and profiting by their aid. We see the growth of economic interdependence and from this in turn the need for political and other forms of cooperative and regulative action. In general, the subject matter of history should include the three closely related lines, namely: (1) the discoveries of the resources of nature, and of inventions for the conquest and use of these resources; (2) the development of means for...

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