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The possibility and probability of accurate statement on the part of the one recording the event.

The efficiency of the adjustment of means to ends.

The righteousness of the act.

The motives and ideals that dominated the act.

It develops the power of comparison through demanding attention to similarities and differences in motives, agents, means, processes, events, places, dates, and results.

It develops the power of classification--of co?rdinating and subordinating data.

It develops the habit of forming generalizations from detailed facts.

It gives a real conception of the meaning of time, through the considerations of man's slow evolution in social relations.

It gives ability to take a large view of life's affairs and interests,--to see things in their essential relations.

It gives habits of analyzing the aims and motives of men, and the means they employ to attain their ends, i.e., it gives insight into character and hence makes social adjustment easier.

It develops tolerance for the opinions, convictions, and ideals of others, and tends to prevent hard, dogmatic, and uncompromising judgments and attitudes.

It gives appreciation of the civic and political institutions of to-day--their origin, development, and purposes--and hence teaches the rights and obligations that are inherent in citizenship.

It inspires patriotism "through arousing noble emotions that revolve about inherited responsibilities."

It reveals the slow evolutionary processes that operate in social life, and hence tends to encourage one to put himself in harmony with the laws of social evolution and to strive for social betterment while he at the same time is patient with existing conditions.

It breaks down provincialism through revealing the relations, common traits, and interdependence of one community with another, and one nation with all other nations.

It habituates to weighing motives and actions as regards their righteousness.

It implants ideals of personal character by disclosing the personal qualities and moral accomplishments of men and women who have, in large ways, affected history, and who have in consequence received lasting honor and renown.

It teaches us to see something of the intangible forces that override personal preferences and hinder the direct application of principles sincerely held.

It inspires a love of truth.

It develops charity for the past; forbearance for the present; and faith and hope for the future.

It stirs to an appreciation of the beauties of man's handwork in sculpture, architecture, painting, musical and literary form, industry and commerce.

It reveals the beauties of human genius in adapting institutions and governmental forms and processes to desired ends.

It refines and enriches the emotions by bringing them into contact with the emotional expressions of the race.

It develops literary expression, and a taste for good reading.

It thrills and inspires, and incites to more thorough-going efforts to attain ideals of proportion and order.

It aids in interpreting many allusions in literature and current expressions.

It vitalizes geography.

It gives a perspective for viewing all other branches of study, and hence for a fairer comprehension of them.

It makes the experiences of travel intelligible.

It gives a fund of information for use in conversation and public utterances.

It breaks down provincialism; develops toleration, sympathy, and human interest; and hence makes intercourse with fellowmen more frictionless and cordial.

It creates an interest in the resources, raw materials, tools, and processes of one's vocation, and fosters pride and contentment with labor.

It explains racial, economic, religious, and social cleavages and prejudices, and makes for a truer democracy of feeling.

It gives insight into legal, governmental, and business institutions and forms, and hence makes easier the adjustment to governmental and business requirements.

It gives an elevated viewpoint from which better to observe all aspects of civilization to-day and thereby to comprehend them more fully.

It furnishes an inexhaustible source of pleasure and satisfaction for leisure hours and for the consolation of old age.

QUERIES

Units of measurement: day, month, year, decade, century, administration, sovereignty, ministry, epoch, era, and the unit determined by the movement of the events themselves as they naturally cohere.

Dates as agencies for assigning definite position in time.

Units of location: continent, nation, empire, kingdom, state, section, region, district, town, city, county, and the geographical groups or centers formed by the events themselves as they cohere.

Climate and meteorology affecting

Character of the people.

Occupations.

Topography, affecting

Movement of races, armies, productions, etc.

Size and boundaries of states.

Location and character of cities.

Industries.

Trade and transportation.

Natural resources, soil, and products, affecting

Livelihood.

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