Heroes of Everyday Life: A Reader for the Upper Grades (Classic Reprint)

Professor William James has said, Man is, once for all, a fighting animal; centuries of peaceful his tory could not breed the battle instinct out of us and military virtue is the kind of virtue least in need of reenforcement by reflection, least in need of orator's or poet's help. A rarer quality than military valor in the citizens of our own land or of any land is that form of moral bravery known as civic courage. To deflect the battle instinct in the youth towards the fields of social service would be to contribute strength and hope to the nation.

It has been asserted that reverence for heroism has, of late' years, been on the wane. Whether or no this be true, one way to foster the noble emotion is the reading and re-reading of acts of self-devotion. The lad says to himself, What this man did, I can do. The thought is a constant call to self-respect.

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