citizenship is impossible unless the people understand the government
under which they live.

It is certainly strange that every State in the Union maintains a
system of public schools for the purpose of training citizens, and that
the course of study in so many States omits civil government, the
science of citizenship.

The author's special thanks are due Hon. Joseph Desha Pickett, Ph.D.,
Superintendent of Public Instruction of Kentucky, for the suggestion
which led to the preparation of the work and for excellent thoughts
upon the plan. The author also desires to confess his obligation to
President James K. Patterson, Ph.D., and Professor R. N. Roark, A.M.,
of the Kentucky State College, Lexington, for valuable suggestions as
to the method of treatment and the scope of the book.

The author has derived much assistance from the many admirable works
upon the same subject, now before the country. But he has not
hesitated to adopt a treatment different from theirs when it has been
deemed advisable. He submits his work to a discriminating public, with
the hope that he has not labored in vain in a field in which so many
have wrought.

ALEX. L. PETERMAN.




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