Accordingly our boys' and girls' sense of independence and patriotism must be nourished by making England out a far greater oppressor than ever she really had been.

These historians dwelt as heavily as they could upon George III and his un-English autocracy, and as lightly as they could upon the English Pitt and upon all the English sympathy we had.

Indeed, about this most of them didn't say a word.
Now that policy may possibly have been desirable once--if it can ever be desirable to suppress historic truth from a whole nation.

But to-day, when we have long stood on our own powerful legs and need no bolstering up of such a kind, that policy is not only silly, it is pernicious.

It is pernicious because the world is heaving with frightful menaces to all the good that man knows.