ory is dynamic, not static,
i.e., that all historical material constitutes a unity that is revealed
under the two laws of continuity and differentiation.

"There are no breaks or leaps in the life of a people. Development
may hasten or may slacken, and may seem to cease for a time, but
it is always continuous; it always proceeds out of antecedent
conditions, and if it be arrested for a time it begins again at
the point where it ended."

"Since the essence of history is the real life of a people--their
ideas and feelings--history develops as ideas and feelings develop.
But thoughts and feelings never exhibit themselves repeatedly in
the same forms, but take on new modes of expression in the very
process of growth."--_Mace._

QUERIES

1. Does the teacher observed lay emphasis on details as ends in
themselves or as means to other ends?

2. Is there a "richness" of details or is there a dearth of them?

3. Are details presented in a vivid manner, with many gripping
tentacles, or are they set forth in bold, uninteresting forms only?

4. Are the details intimately fused or correlated?

5. Is effort made to get each pupil to develop a mental picture of the
scene represented by the details?

6. When the image is fashioned, is an effort made to discriminate and
to abstract the dominant characteristics?

7. Is effort made to get at the spirit of the historical fact, and to
discover the motives that operated to produce it?

8. Are generalizations and principles of human thought, feeling, and
conduct deduced from the study?

9. Is effort made to test the validity of such principles among social
relationships of to-day?

10. Does the teacher make history appear what it is, i.e., a ceaseless
development, a unity, or does she leave the impression among the pupils
that history is a mass of disconnected dead facts?

XI. _The Organization of History in High Schools._

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| PLAN 1 | PLAN 2 | PLAN 3 |
+--------------------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
| 9th grade} General History |Ancient History | |
|10th grade} |Med. & Mod. History|Anc. & Med. Hist. |
+--------------------------------+-------------------+-------------------+
|11th grade} American History |English History |Modern Hi