Nations, unity of, 108, 161-165; Popular government, essential to
Native land, 145-153, 219-222,
225-226
Naturalization, 200-201, 202-205,
209-211
Nature, bounties of, given to
America, 3-5
New England, 9-10, 18-22; con-
tributions of, to civilization, 18-
New World, 2-3, 211, 228
North and South, 7
Officials, public, duties of, 105-107,
190-192
Old World, 200-213, 235-236, 242,
317
Opportunity, America the land of,
3-4, 27; a characteristic of
American life, 108-110
Oppression, opposition to, 12-14
Optimism of Americans, 110
Panama Canal, 251
Pan-America, 89-90
Pan-Germanism, 289-290
Partisanship, dangers of, 37-39
Patriotism, 139-166; necessary for
democracy of our government,
37-40; what it is, 68-69; faith
in our government, 73-74; duty
of, 140-143; value of, 140-143;
glory of, 143-144; love of coun-
try, 145; moral quality of, 154-
157, 161-165; the higher, 161-
165
Peace, belief in, a trait of the Ameri-
can Spirit, 78, 80-81; terms of.
294-296, 298-302, 305-310, 322-
323; return of, 302-304; basis
of a world, 305-310
Persistence, an American trait, 133-
137, 323-324
Philippine Islands, 85-86
Pilgrims, landing of, 14-15, 16;
early traits of, 17-18; character
of, 22
Pioneer life, trials of, 16-18, 28-31,
43-44
Pioneer spirit, 1-31; of discovery,
1-5; of colonization, 6, 16-22; of
the frontier, 25-31
Plains, influence of, on American
Spirit, 25-30, 44, 114-115
Poland, 300-308
Practical judgment, a trait of Amer-
ican Spirit, 12-14, 47, 65
Present crisis. See Crisis
Privilege, special, foreign to the
American Spirit, 91-93, 128-129,
210-211
Providence, belief in, 12-13
Prussia. See Germany
Prussianism, 247-249, 258, 259, 270
Public affairs, interest in, 92
Public opinion, 90
Public servants. See Officials,
public
Puritanism, 9-10, 11-14
Radical political thought and de-
mocracy, 117-119
Red Cross, 79-80
Religious faith, a characteristic of
the American Spirit, 1-2, 3-5, 6,
11-14, 22, 23, 24, 120, 130, 132-
133, 166, 274-275
Religious freedom, 15, 155
Revolution, American, 9; and de-
mocracy, 117-120, 211, 269
Russia, Democratic revolution in,
269-270, 282-283, 299, 306
Sectionalism, dangers of, 38-41
Self-government, 9; the safeguard
of liberty, 206–209
Sincerity, a phase of the American
Spirit, 44, 45
Socialism, 120-122.
South, contribution of the, 6-7;
and North, see North and South
Spanish America, Pan-American
policy, 80-81; Monroe Doctrine,
85-86
Spanish-American War, 79-80, 81,
82, 133-137, 212
Standards of living, high, essential
to America, 109-110
Submarine warfare, 262-263
Vienna, Congress of, 298
Virginians, 3-5, 8-10, 21-22, 112
Voluntary citizenship, 202-205
War, declaration of, 265-266
Washington, George, 10; greatest
of national leaders, 33; character
of, 33-37; soldier and statesman,
36-37; counsels of, 37-43
West, influence of, on American
Spirit, 25-28, 28-29, 112-115
Wheeler, Joseph, 82-83
Women, influence of, on American
Spirit, 15, 28-31
Work, belief in, a characteristic of
American Spirit, 22, 92, 125–127,
128-129, 235-236, 318
World power or downfall, 239
World war, 239-240; causes of,
245-255, 262-274, 276-283, 286-
290, 310-317; preparation for,
249; America in the, 265-274,
274-283, 290-292, 292-302, 305-
310. See Crisis, present
INDEX TO AUTHORS, TITLES, AND
THE FIRST LINES OF POEMS
Authors' names are given in capitals and small capitals, titles of extracts
in plain capitals and small letters, and first lines of poems in italics.
After all, one country, brethren, 237
Alien to Citizen, From, 217
America (S. F. Smith), 139
America (Bayard Taylor), 199
America, Characteristics of, 65.
America Alone, 222
America First (Theodore Roose-
velt), 233
America First (Woodrow Wilson),
230
America for Me! 93
America the Beautiful, 158
American Democracy, The Mean-
ing of, 286
American Flag, The, 179
American Flag Not the Dollar Sign,
The, 86
American Ideals Not Imperialistic,
85
American Liberty, Peculiarity of,
American Republic, The, 97
Americanism, 91
Americans of Foreign Birth, 202
America's Cause and the Foreign-
born Citizen, 228
America's Purpose in the War, 292
AMES, FISHER: What is Patriot-
ism? 68
Aristokrats, 128
Armageddon, 284
ARNOLD, SIR EDWIN: Armageddon,
284
A tale half told and hardly under-
stood, 29
Basis for World Democracy, A, 320
BATES, KATHARINE LEE: America
the Beautiful, 158
Battle Hymn of the Republic, 274
BEECHER, HENRY WARD:
The
Symbol of Our Nation, 181
Behind him lay the gray Azores, 1
BILLINGS, JOSH: Aristokrats, 128
BLANKENBURG, RUDOLPH : Amer-
ica Alone, 222
BORAH, W. E.: Freedom against
the Will to Power, 310
Duty and Value of Patriotism, The, | HEMANS, FELICIA D. B.: The
140
EMERSON, R. W.: Freedom, 102
Exodus for Oregon, The, 29
Faith in Our Government, 73
Far Journey, A, 223
FINLEY, JOHN H.: The Thirtieth
Man, 105
First Landing at Plymouth, The, 16
FISKE, JOHN: The North and the
South One in Their Origin, 7
Flag, The Makers of the, 190
Flag Day, A Song for, 184
Flag Day Address, 275
Flag Etiquette, 185
Fleet at Santiago, The, 80
For, lo! the living God doth bare His
arm, 95
Foreign Born, The Loyalty of the,
209
Foreign-born
Cause and the, 228
Foreigner in a Democracy, The, 206
Foreseen in the vision of sages, 199
Founding of Jamestown, The, 6
FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN: Charac-
teristics of America, 65
Freedom, 102
Freedom against the Will to Power,
310
Freedom all winged expands, 102
Freedom of the Land, The, 230
From Alien to Citizen, 217
GARRISON, W. L.: Liberty for All,
77
Gettysburg Address, The, 62
GILDER, R. W.: When with Their
Country's Anger, 83
Give me white paper! 2
Glory of Patriotism, The, 143
God Makes a Path, 24
God of our fathers, known of old, 166
GORDON, J. L.: Wheeler at San-
tiago, 82
Government in the Interest of All,
72
GRADY, HENRY W.: The Homes of
the People, 129
Grant's Greatest Victory, 78
HALE, E. E.: Columbus, 2
The Man without a Country, 145
HAY, JOHN: Liberty, 104
Landing of the Pilgrims, 14
HENRY, PATRICK: Liberty
HIBBEN, JOHN GRIER: Martial
Valor in Times of Peace, 160
Higher Patriotism, The, 161
Homes of the People, The, 129
How Democracy Surpasses Mon-
archy, 110
How "The Star-Spangled Banner"
Was Written, 172
HOWE, JULIA WARD: Battle Hymn
of the Republic, 274
HUBBARD, ELBERT: A Message to
Garcia, 133
Independence Day, The New, 323
Influence of the West upon De-
mocracy, The, 112
INGERSOLL, R. G.: Abraham Lin-
coln, 54
Into the thick of the fight he went,
pallid and sick and wan, 82
IRELAND, ARCHBISHOP JOHN: Duty
and Value of Patriotism, 140
Is there for honest poverty, 123
It's easy to fight when everything's
right, 323
JEFFERSON, THOMAS: Faith in Our
Government, 73
JONES, SIR WILLIAM: What Con-
stitutes a State? 103
JORDAN, DAVID STARR: A Basis for
World Democracy, 320
KAHN, OTTO H.: America's Cause
and the Foreign-born Citizen,
228
The Poison Growth of Prussian-
ism, 259
KEY, FRANCIS SCOTT: The Star-
Spangled Banner, 170
KIPLING, RUDYARD: Recessional,
166
Labor, The Democratic Ideal of, 125
Labor and Democracy, 108
LAMPREY, L.: Sayings of Lincoln,
45
The Freedom of the Land, 230
Landing of the Pilgrims, The, 14
LANE, FRANKLIN K.: The Makers
of the Flag, 190
Liberty, 104
Authors, Titles, and First Lines
Liberty Enlightening the World, 197 | Name of Old Glory, The, 193
Liberty for All, 77
Liberty or Death, 70
LINCOLN, ABRAHAM: The Gettys,
burg Address, 62
NESBIT, W. D.: A Song for Flag
Day, 184
Lincoln, Abraham (Ingersoll), 54
Lincoln, Abraham (Lowell), 43
Lincoln, Abraham (Taylor), 58
Lincoln, Sayings of, 45
Lincoln a Typical American, 51
Lincoln's Birthplace, 56
Lincoln's Sympathy, 50
LODGE, HENRY CABOT: The Char-
acter of Washington, 33
The Fleet at Santiago, 80
The American Flag Not the
Dollar Sign, 86
Long, long ago our people made our
Land for us, 230
LONGFELLOW, H. W.: The Ship of
State, 319
Look Up, Look Forth, and On! 318
Love of Country, 145
LOWELL, J. R.: Abraham Lincoln,
43
Democracy, 116
New England Civilization, 18
The Present Crisis, 241
Washington, 36
New England Civilization, 18
New Independence Day, The, 323
North and the South One in Their
Origin, The, 7
O beautiful for spacious skies, 158
O Captain! My Captain! 61
Ode to Columbia, 235
Oh, say, can you see, 170
Old Glory! say who, 193
Old Glory, The Name of, 193
Old Glory, The Story of, 167
Once to every man and nation, 241
One Country, 237
Our Kind of a Man, 132
Our Pan-American Policy, 89
Our Responsibilities, 314
PAGE, THOMAS NELSON:
Founding of Jamestown, 6
Pan-American Policy, Our, 89
Patriotism, Duty and Value of, 140
Patriotism, The Glory of, 143
Patriotism, The Higher, 161
Patriotism, The Moral Quality in,
154
Loyalty of the Foreign Born, The, Patriotism, What Is, 68
MACAULAY, T. B.: The Puritans, 11
MCCAIN, H. P. Flag Etiquette, 185
MCKINLEY, WILLIAM: American
Ideals Not Imperialistic, 85
Makers of the Flag, The, 190
Making of an American, The, 200
Man's a Man for A' That, A, 123
Man without a Country, The, 145
Marching down to Armageddon, 284
Martial Valor in Times of Peace, 160
Meaning of American Democracy,
The, 286
MERCIER, CARDINAL: The Glory
of Patriotism, 143
Message to Garcia, A, 133
MILLER, JOAQUIN: Columbus, 1
The Exodus for Oregon, 29
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the
coming of the Lord, 274
MONROE, HARRIET: Democracy, 95
Monroe Doctrine, The, 74
Moral Quality in Patriotism, The,
154
My country, 'tis of thee, 139
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