Ungrudged—and great and small
Shall give their best of hand and brain
For the good of each and all,—
And we’ll stand together, come what may
In the brighter Dawn of a Better Day!
CIVICS
THE SCHOOL CENTER
HENRY S. CURTIS
Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar: “Thou, O king, sawest and beheld a great image. His head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms were of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, and his feet part of iron and part of clay; and a stone smote the image upon the feet that were of iron and clay and brake them in pieces. Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken in pieces together.”
This image might represent America nearly as well as the empire of “the great king.” In the original democracies of Greece, the freemen met together in the market place to elect from their friends and acquaintances the officers who determined the policy of the state. The weakness of American democracy is that we have not organized this primitive element or demos on which it is supposed to stand.