Their protests may be as vivacious and as persistent as the error demands.

The supporters of the erroneous policy may be made the object of most drastic criticism and the uncompromising exposure.

No effort should be spared to secure the adoption of a more genuinely national policy.

But beyond all this there remains a still deeper responsibility--that of dealing towards one's fellow-countrymen in good faith, so that differences of interest, of conviction, and of moral purpose can be made the agency of a better understanding and a firmer loyalty.
If a national policy offends the integrity of the national idea, as for a while that of the American nation did, its mistake is sure to involve certain disastrous consequences; and those consequences constitute, usually, the vehicle of necessary national discipline.

The national school is, of course, the national life.