A Working Manual of American History for Teachers and Students (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Working Manual of American History for Teachers and Students (Classic Reprint) written by William H. Mace and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Working Manual of American History for Teachers and Students The Thought of the Manual. - The idea underlying the Manual is that history is a process, and that it is not at all understood unless it is so conceived and studied. Fundamentally history is not an external or physical process. It is not a process of occurring events and incidents, although it has these accompaniments, but is rather the connected growth of ideas and institutions. The Relation between Events and Ideas. - Ideas and institutions grow, but events do not. The former have a continuous existence, while the latter only occur. Events as such have no connection among themselves. They are the external forms in which ideas and sentiments, in the process of growth, express themselves. The physical facts of history are a means to the inner facts which are the end. This relation is often reversed in the mind of the student, by poor teaching. Not only is this relation reversed, but the student loses sight of the movement of ideas and the growth of institutions almost altogether, and constantly speaks in terms of events. 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.